Every hacker is an artist and every artist is a hacker... http://www.wired.com/news/infostructure/0,1377,63506,00.html?tw=newsletter_topstories_html The chapters on general rules of good design as they apply to programming, painting and any creative endeavor are by far the best in the 'Hackers & Painters', book; http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/hackpaint/chapter/ch02.pdf

To help Free Software we must avoid the Java-Trap: http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/java-trap.html

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