Honestly, who is Steve Yegge? I've only heard of him because articles from his blog are occasionally posted here. His blog doesn't give any biographical details as far as I can tell, and I tried to look him up on wikipedia to see what he's actually done, but he doesn't have an article.
Can anyone explain why he's notable (apart from the old "I've heard of him therefore..." argument)? Not being combative, just curious.
As far as I can tell, he isn't notable outside of blogging (I had no idea who he was either). I can understand why his wikipedia page got deleted.
On the other hand, I have no problem with wikipedia including pages on famous bloggers who happen to be programmers. I think wikipedia's biggest strength is having something on just about everything. If I googled "Steve Yegge", it would be nice to have a wikipedia page there with a short blurb on why people know him (blogging about programming presumably).
Oddly, I was just thinking this morning about how people here on this site think Steve Yegge is extremely famous, while I don't really know who he is. His own description is that he was programmer at Amazon who wrote a blog in the evenings while drinking, and the blog became popular.
Not that I'm aware of. Anyway, my question (not directed to you, but to everyone) is why does everyone bring it up as this great point to his credit, when it was never released or used?
Hey I can't speak for anyone else, but Yegge made me a MUCH better programmer.
His article on "Java is the kingdom of nouns" and various writings explaining why lisp matters and the virtues and pitfalls of static typing/dynamic typing really made me question a lot of implicit assumptions I did not realize I had.
Can anyone explain why he's notable (apart from the old "I've heard of him therefore..." argument)? Not being combative, just curious.