{"id":17,"date":"2006-10-10T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-10T19:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wordpress\/?p=17"},"modified":"2007-01-23T13:17:14","modified_gmt":"2007-01-23T22:17:14","slug":"interview-with-some-of-the-biggest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/2006\/10\/10\/interview-with-some-of-the-biggest\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with some of the biggest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/sztywny.titaniumhosting.com\/2006\/07\/23\/stiff-asks-great-programmers-answers\/\">Stiff asks, great programmers answer<\/a>,&#8221; blogger Jarosaw &#8220;sztywny&#8221; Rzesz\u00c3\u00b3tko gets answers from some of the most influential programmers of the day. Includes responses from Linus Torvalds (Linux), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), James Gosling (Java), Tim Bray (XML, Atom), Guido Van Rossum (Python), Dave Thomas (Pragmatic Programmer), David Heinemeier Hansson (Rails Framework), and Googlers Steve Yegge and Peter Norvig.<\/p>\n<p>While there are a good deal of serious answers about tools, platforms, methods, skills and so forth, the gem that made me chuckle was the response from Guido Van Rossum to the question <em>&#8220;What do you think is the most important skill every programmer should posses?&#8221;<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p> <em>I guess being able to cook an egg for breakfast is invaluable. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an article titled &#8220;Stiff asks, great programmers answer,&#8221; blogger Jarosaw &#8220;sztywny&#8221; Rzesz\u00c3\u00b3tko gets answers from some of the most influential programmers of the day. Includes responses from Linus Torvalds (Linux), Bjarne Stroustrup (C++), James &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[41],"tags":[178],"class_list":["post-17","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-community","tag-community"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pxT7i-h","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evardsson.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}