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[Larry Butler]

I spoke with him for about 10 minutes at the 1998 Linux Expo.  He stroked 
and seemed to pick things out of his hair the entire time.  I say "seemed" 
because I didn't see anything actually in his hair.  He just picked at it.

It was interesting though to put a face (and a personality) to a person who's 
code I liked to read so much.  I remember reading GNU Make source and 
thinking it was so dense (i.e. it does a lot in a few lines), but was still 
completely lucid.

It's funny.  If you go to school to study art, architecture, music, probably 
even law, you'll spend a lot of time contemplating works that are recognized 
to be the best.  If you go to study computer science you'll contemplate some 
examples out of a textbook of maybe something your professor wrote - all 
contrived examples.  Not real, and not written by the best.  Not unless you 
look for it on your own.  And even if you do, you'll come across a lot of 
crap.  I guess counter examples can be good too.

Larry


On Thursday 03 January 2002 04:58 pm, you wrote:
> He spoke at our ACM chapter when I was at FSU.  My friend started
> keeping a tally of how many times RMS touched/scratched/adjusted his
> privates during his talk.  Final count, 67.
>
> That's pretty impressive for being on stage only 40 minutes.
>