Hacker Initials
Just like painters hackers sign their works. A common way is to use one’s initials. A collection of hacker initials:
- JSB – John Seely Brown
- ESR – Eric S. Raymond
- RMS – Richard Stallman
- EWD – Edsger W. Dijkstra
- @ – Adriaan van Wijngaarden
- NNT – Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- MZ – Mark Zbikowski (read the EXE-file story here)
I would like to grow this list, please post additions to this list as comments. I will update the list accordingly.
jwz – Jamie W. Zawinski
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski)
dmr — Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie)
ppk – Peter-Paul Koch (???http://www.quirksmode.org/)
I knew it. I’m not the only one writting about intitials.
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ThreeLetterPerson