这位stiff用邮件访问了9位程序界的牛人，内容挺有趣的～值得一看

Stiff asks, great programmers answer

……Starring:

Linus Torvalds - The Linux kernel author

Dave Thomas - Author of the “Pragmmatic Programmer”, “Programming Ruby” and other great books about programming. One can read his mainly programming-related thoughts here.

David Heinemeier Hansson - Author of the Rails Framework - the new hot web development framework. He has a weblog here.

Steve Yegge - Probably the least known from guys here, but also made one of the most interestings answers, has a popular weblog about programming. He is also the author of a game called “Wyvern”.

Peter Norvig - Research Director at Google, a well known Lisper, author of famous (in some circles at least) books about AI. See his homepage.

Guido Van Rossum - The Python language creator

Bjarne Stroustrup - C++ creator, has a homepage here

James Gosling - The Java language creator

Tim Bray - One of the XML and Atom specifications author and a blogger too.

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