Duba wurin da ke ƙasa sannan ka amsa tambayar daga baya a cikin harshe ɗaya kamar yadda wurin yake:  Passage: An haifi Stallman a ranar 16 ga Maris, 1953, a Birnin New York, ga dangin Yahudawa. Iyayensa sune Alice Lippman, malamin makaranta, da Daniel Stallman, dillalin buga takardu. Stallman yana da dangantaka mai wuya tare da iyayensa, kamar yadda mahaifinsa yake shan giya kuma ya zagi mahaifiyarsa. Daga baya ya zo ya kwatanta iyayensa a matsayin "masu zalunci". Ya kasance mai sha'awar kwamfutoci tun yana ƙarami; lokacin da Stallman ya kasance matashi a sansanin bazara, ya karanta littattafan hannu don IBM 7094. Daga 1967 zuwa 1969, Stallman ya halarci shirin Asabar na Jami'ar Columbia don ɗaliban makarantar sakandare. Stallman ya kuma kasance mai ba da gudummawar taimako a dakin gwaje-gwaje a sashen nazarin halittu a Jami'ar Rockefeller. Kodayake yana sha'awar lissafi da kimiyyar lissafi, malamin koyarwarsa a Rockefeller ya yi tunanin cewa ya nuna alamar zama masanin ilimin halitta.Kwarewarsa ta farko tare da ainihin kwamfutoci ta kasance a Cibiyar Kimiyya ta IBM New York lokacin da yake makarantar sakandare. An hayar da shi a lokacin rani a 1970, bayan kammala karatunsa na makarantar sakandare, don rubuta shirin bincike na lamba a cikin Fortran. Ya kammala aikin bayan makonni biyu ("Na rantse cewa ba zan sake amfani da FORTRAN ba saboda na raina shi a matsayin harshe idan aka kwatanta da sauran harsuna") kuma ya ciyar da sauran lokacin bazara yana rubuta editan rubutu a cikin APL da preprocessor don PL / I harshen shirye-shirye akan IBM System / 360.  Tambaya: A ina ne Stallman ya shafe lokacinsa a matsayin mai sa kai?
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