Coders at Work Peter Seibel,
Publisher: Apress
ISBN: 1430219483
DDC: 5
Edition: Hardcover; 2009-09-11
Summary:
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer
programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a brand-new
companion volume to Apress’s highly acclaimed best-seller Founders at
Work by Jessica Livingston. As the words “at work” suggest, Peter
Seibel focuses on how his interviewees tackle the day-to-day work of
programming, while revealing much more, like how they became great
programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and
what kinds of problems they find most interesting. Hundreds of people
have suggested names of programmers to interview on the Coders at
Work web site: www.codersatwork.com. The complete list was 284 names.
Having digested everyone’s feedback, we selected 15 folks who’ve been
kind enough to agree to be interviewed: Frances Allen: Pioneer in
optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and
first female IBM fellow Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang Joshua
Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google Bernie
Cosell: One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET
IMPs and a master debugger Douglas Crockford: JSON founder,
JavaScript architect at Yahoo! L. Peter Deutsch: Author of
Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5
on PDP-1 Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla
Corporation Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID,
memcached, and Perlbal Dan Ingalls: Smalltalk implementor and
designer Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer
of Glasgow Haskell Compiler Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of
Computer Programming and creator of TeX Peter Norvig: Director of
Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI Guy Steele:
Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five,
currently working on Fortress Ken Thompson: Inventor of UNIX Jamie
Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker What
you’ll learn How the best programmers in the world do their job Who
is this book for? Programmers interested in the point of view of
leaders in the field. Programmers looking for approaches that work
for some of these outstanding programmers.
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