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| Category: | General - Books | By: | APress |
| More info: | www.apress.com ... | Author(s): | Peter Seibel |
| Pages: | 617 | Year of publication: | 2009 |
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.15 Folks were 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 » Read more... | ![]() |
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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.15 Folks were 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 & 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 & author of the standard text on AI;- Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme & 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.

