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What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared.

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Meursalt
_why was not just famous within the Ruby community, but one of its creators. He had contributed thousands of lines of code to Ruby’s open-source libraries. He wrote one of the most famous guides to Ruby
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  1. Meursalt

    Meursalt Chunky bacon.

    April 1, 2012
Florian Letsch
It would not run. It took me more than an hour to figure out I had left in an extra space in my code, preventing the whole thing from working right. But then, after some 98 minutes and some serious Googling, a three showed up in my Terminal shell.  I had written a program. 
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  1. Florian Letsch

    Florian Letsch NY Times reporter Annie Lowrey takes us on her journey to the love of code. And on a quest to understand why one of the most popular figures in the Ruby community suddenly disappeared in 2009, never to be seen again.

    May 13, 2012
Moritz Kröger
In late 2009, _why’s disappearance played out in real time on the Internet, as Rubyists noticed his projects had stopped loading and relayed the news on popular forums. It was not just one site or server, they fast realized. _why, his blog, his Twitter feed, and all of his open-source code had disappeared from the Internet, and all at once. The term of art is “infosuicide,” a rare but hardly unheard-of occurrence.
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David Burrows
“High-level” languages like Ruby and Python have become particularly popular for producing Web applications, compared with “low-level” languages like C, Rossum explained. “Let’s say I am giving directions for how to leave this room,” he says, gesturing to the white-walled, white-boarded Google office around him, visible in our Google+ hangout, a kind of video chat. “In Python, I would just say something like, ‘Get up and go through the door.’ In other languages, I might have to say something like, ‘Stand up, but not with so much force that you fall over, take three step[…]
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Paul Bremer
What happened when one of the world’s most unusual, and beloved, computer programmers disappeared.
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matthiasr
Eventually, I got to a receptionist. Yes, he works there, she said. No, she would not give me his direct line, or patch me through. I could send an email to her, and she would forward to him. Finally, late in my reporting, I got word back-channeled to me from another Salt Lake City programmer: Jonathan is _why, he is fine, and he just wants to be left alone.
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