Eric Allman

(1955) Engineer

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Eric Allman is an engineer, best known for Sendmail.

Quick Facts About Eric Allman

Born: September 2, 1955
Profession: Engineer
Notable works: Sendmail

About Eric Allman

Eric Paul Allman is an American computer programmer who developed sendmail and its precursor delivermail in the late 1970s and early 1980s at UC Berkeley. In 1998, Allman and Greg Olson co-founded the company Sendmail, Inc.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Eric Allman

There is some sort of perverse pleasure in knowing that it's basically impossible to send a piece of hate mail through the…

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Gay

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Unix gives you just enough rope to hang yourself - and then a couple of more feet, just to be sure.

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Couple

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Personally, one of the down sides of founding a company is that there is always too much work to do, and sadly…

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Business

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I used to be enamored of object-oriented programming. I'm now finding myself leaning toward believing that it is a plot designed to…

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Believe

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I like to eat good food. I cook and collect wine. I like going for long walks when I can.

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Cooks

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The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as…

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Intellectual

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People optimize locally - that is, they do what's best for themselves.

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People

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This is like the telephone problem - no one wants to have the first one. But we are seeing a lot of…

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Firsts

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