matthew
August 28th, 2006, 09:26 PM
Amusing little article with pictures of various programmers and people important to the unix culture. Here's a quote:
Some time ago there was an article surrounding the figure heads of UNIX and their beards. This is the best reconstruction of that to my knowledge. You've probably heard the term "Unix beard". The Urban Dictionary defines it as:
"Facial hair that all Unix experts are mysteriously compelled to grow. The length, bushiness, and unkemptness of the Unix beard are all directly proportional to the owner's expertise."
Tamir Khason in Israel suggests that programming languages designed by guys with facial hair become popular (C, C++, Basic, Perl) while languages designed by smooth-shaven guys don't (Smalltalk, Eiffel, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang).And here's the link: http://www.bsdwarez.net/unix_beard.php
Some time ago there was an article surrounding the figure heads of UNIX and their beards. This is the best reconstruction of that to my knowledge. You've probably heard the term "Unix beard". The Urban Dictionary defines it as:
"Facial hair that all Unix experts are mysteriously compelled to grow. The length, bushiness, and unkemptness of the Unix beard are all directly proportional to the owner's expertise."
Tamir Khason in Israel suggests that programming languages designed by guys with facial hair become popular (C, C++, Basic, Perl) while languages designed by smooth-shaven guys don't (Smalltalk, Eiffel, Scheme, Haskell, Erlang).And here's the link: http://www.bsdwarez.net/unix_beard.php