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

My Rating

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.)