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Programmers at Work: Interviews


Programmers at Work: Interviews
by Susan Summers
ISBN 0914845713
Date Read 2/2005

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It’s an important book, recommended by a lot of people. I bought it mainly because Steve McConnell recommended it. Is it good? Yeah, it’s good. Is it great? No. It’s not great because it’s been published in the 1980′s. When you read some of the interviews, you sense that. On the other hand, it is good because you get to see how great programmers think. I especially liked the interviews with the following four great minds: Butler Lampson, John Warnock, Bill Gates, and John Page. I recommend reading them. (I wrote it for myself on the back of the book to re-read those four interviews.)

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The key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. — Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy - 4 days agoThe ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. — Hans Hoffmann - 9 days agoSo much complexity in software comes from trying to make one thing do two things. — Ryan Singer - 15 days agoGood code is short, simple, and symmetrical - the challenge is figuring out how to get there. — Sean Parent - 17 days agoSimplicity carried to the extreme becomes elegance. — Jon Frankli - 21 days ago

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