Ten questions for great programmers answered

Blogger Jaros?aw Rzeszótko sent ten questions to a bunch of notable programmers and posted their answers on his blog. Though not all of his recipients replied, several big names did, including Linux creator Linus Torvalds, Guido Van Rossum, creator of the Python programming language, James Gosling, creator or Java, and Ruby hackers Dave Thomas and David Heinemeier Hansson. To a programmer like myself, their answers are fascinating. Some of the most interesting answers are to the "How did you learn programming?" and "Next big thing" questions. It's interesting to see that the none of the respondents came up with the same answer to "What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses?"

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