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“We've been using C and C++ way too much - they're nice, but they're very close to the machine and what we wanted was to empower regular users to build applications for Linux.”

Quote by Miguel de Icaza

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Miguel de Icaza

Miguel de Icaza is a renowned programmer born in 1972. He has had a profound impact on the field of open-source software, particularly in the areas of Linux and Unix-like systems. De Icaza is one of the key founders of the Gnome project, which aims to provide a unified user interface for desktop environments. He also led the development of the Mono project, an open-source implementation of the .NET framework designed to offer cross-platform software development solutions. more

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