I was coming onto this thread to point out Hans Reiser as well. Of course, he does not fit exactly. He was a filesystem creator rather than a programming language creator. Also, he only committed the one murder, so not a serial killer. But he is someone who fits the theme.
Of course, he seems to be something of an exception. I don't seem to hear about many open source programmers committing murders. Really, there are quite a lot of open source programmers out there, so it seems like we would hear about it mo
Diversity (Score:5, Funny)
Programming Language Inventor
Serial Killer
Why can't you identify to be both at the same time . . . ?
I am doing very well on the Serial Killer part, but the Programming Language Inventor is a real bitch and a half.
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You mean like Hans Riser ? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... [wikipedia.org]
Re: (Score:5, Interesting)
I was coming onto this thread to point out Hans Reiser as well. Of course, he does not fit exactly. He was a filesystem creator rather than a programming language creator. Also, he only committed the one murder, so not a serial killer. But he is someone who fits the theme.
Of course, he seems to be something of an exception. I don't seem to hear about many open source programmers committing murders. Really, there are quite a lot of open source programmers out there, so it seems like we would hear about it mo
Re:Diversity (Score:2)
Probably most murderers are drug gang members who have received little education. Not the programmer demographic.
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I've met a few that probably could be serial killers if they had the balls, just man-children really.