Markdown is nice, I read a little about him in his infogami and reddit merge and html2text project and web.py. He was a great hacker, was able to move reddit from lisp to python (pylons) in short time (http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/rewritingreddit)
After he was fired by Wired, things didn't go well for him. He was lesson for entrepreneurship, fame, life ending. Long live Aaron. On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 7:51 PM, Anand Chitipothu <anandol...@gmail.com>wrote: > Hi, > > I'm sure most of you might have already heard about it, Aaron Swartz, > hacker, writer and activist committed suicide on Jan 11, 2013. > > http://boingboing.net/2013/01/12/rip-aaron-swartz.html > > Aaron was a great Python programmer. He created web.py, a web framework in > Python, Infogami a wiki software and many other tools. He co-authored RSS > 1.0 specifications when he as 13 and worked with John Gruber in creating > Markdown. > > The PyCon India 2011 website is still running on Infogami. > > He is not just a programmer, a great activist too. He is the founder od > demand progress, an organization that played crucial role in stoping the > SOPA Act. > > Aaron's death is a great loss to the whole world. > > May his soul rest in peace. > > Anand > _______________________________________________ > BangPypers mailing list > BangPypers@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers > _______________________________________________ BangPypers mailing list BangPypers@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/bangpypers
