Wiki Wiki Ward
Last week I went up to the Computer History Museum to listen to Ward Cunningham, the inventor of the Wiki Wiki Web. From what I heard, it seems like Ward was also heavily involved with Design Patterns, Extreme Programming, and CRC (Class, Responsibilities, and Collaborations) cards. Ward is a veteran computer scientist, he said that it is “a little scary when you walk in a history museum and you say, ‘I programmed in that, and that, and that.'” Speaking about those first computers that he programed, he said that was that era where ever new machine was a new idea.
What I got from his talk, and what I have been seeing in the web, is that great code comes from communities. Great examples of this is Apache, Eclipse, Rails, and Wiki itself. Ward also suggested to surround ourselves in a community of learners.
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