20年後他們在哪裏？

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1986 年時一本名為”Programmers at Work” 的書介紹了二十個當時的電腦工程師(他們可能是世界上最早接觸個人電腦編程的一群人)，二十年後，有個熱血青年吃飽沒事想辦法追蹤了一下這些人現在的近況。

其中比較有趣的簡單列一下：

John Warnock. Then: co-founder of Adobe. Now: retired, serves on boards of directors, apparently runs a bed and breakfast.
Adobe 的創辦人現在已退休在經營一家小旅店，那間店外觀看起來挺不賴啊~

Bill Gates. Then: founder of Microsoft, popularizer of the word “super”. Now: richest guy in the world. After a stint in the 90s as pure evil, semi-retired to focus on philanthropic work.
這位不用多解釋了，現在活的很好呢

C. Wayne Ratliff. Then: author of dBase. Now: retired.
大學時用這個寫圖書館系統，從此立下決心有生之年絕不走這行，10年後事實証明，人不用太鐵齒 XD

Dan Bricklin. Then: co-author of VisiCalc. Now: Has a weblog and lots of accessible historical information about his projects. Still runs Software Garden. Still looks almost exactly like his illustration in PaW, leading some to speculate on a “Spreadsheet of Dorian Gray” type effect. I secretly hope he will see this in referer logs and invite me to hang out with him.

Bob Frankston. Then: the other half of VisiCalc. Now: worked for Microsoft for a few years, now retired, has a weblog.

Jonathan Sachs. Then: co-author of Lotus 1-2-3. Now: semi-retired. Gives away Pocket PC software from his home page, and sells photography software as Digital Light & Color. More details in this 2004 oral history.