Jamie Zawinski

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Jamie Zawinski (also known as jwz ; born November 3, 1968 in Pittsburgh ) is an American programmer . He gained fame through the development of XEmacs , XScreenSaver , as an employee of Netscape Communications and the foundation of the Mozilla project.

biography

After working as a Lisp programmer at Carnegie Mellon University , he worked for Peter Norvig in the field of computational linguistics at UC Berkeley . However, since he did not understand the work of the linguists, he mostly programmed screen savers , which led to the development of XScreenSaver . Disappointed with the job, however, he switched to Lucid Inc. In addition, he developed BBDB ( Big Brother Database ), an address management system for Emacs . Lucid decided at the time that a C ++ - Development Environment to develop, which was also based on Emacs. However, disputes between Richard Stallman and Zawinski over the inclusion of patches in the official Emacs ensured that Zawinski began to manage his own version of Emacs called Lucid Emacs . Lucid Emacs was later renamed XEmacs . Due to Lucid's economic difficulties, he switched to the then young startup Netscape Corp. who developed a new web browser with the Netscape Browser . Zawinski was responsible for developing the UNIX version of the browser and later the associated mail client . At that time he coined the phrase that every program would at some point be expanded to read e-mails. This was jokingly added to the Jargon File as Zawinski's Law . In 1998 he founded the Mozilla project together with Brendan Eich . The goal of the Mozilla project was to publish the Netscape browser as open source . However, since the project progressed only slowly after the purchase of Netscape by AOL , he separated from the project in 1999 and bought a nightclub with Chaps , which he renamed DNA Lounge .

literature

  • Peter Seibel: Coders at Work: Important programmers and their success stories . mitp, 2011, ISBN 978-3-8266-9103-4 , Chapter 1: Jamie Zawinski , p. 17–55 (English: Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming . 2009. Translated by Reinhard Engel).

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b http://www.codersatwork.com/jamie-zawinski.html
  2. ^ XEmacs Home Page for Jamie Zawinski. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 15, 2016 ; Retrieved October 24, 2009 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / gd.tuwien.ac.at
  3. ↑ Jamie Zawinski. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  4. ↑ a b c d jwzhacks. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  5. ↑ The Lemacs / FSFmacs Schism. Retrieved October 24, 2009 .
  6. ↑ http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/Z/Zawinskis-Law.html
  7. ↑ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/party/1998/
  8. ↑ http://www-archive.mozilla.org/fear.html
  9. ↑ http://www.jwz.org/gruntle/nomo.html
  10. ↑ Coders At Work, see #Literature on Jamie Zawinski
personal data
SURNAME Zawinski, Jamie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES jwz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American computer programmer, co-founder of Mozilla
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh