CODERS AT WORK: REFLECTIONS ON THE CRAFT OF PROGRAMMING

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 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 Frances Pioneer in optimizing compilers, first woman to win the Turing Award (2006) and first female IBM fellow Joe Inventor of Erlang Joshua Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google Bernie One of the main software guys behind the original ARPANET IMPs and a master debugger Douglas JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo L. Peter Author of Ghostscript, implementer of Smalltalk-80 at Xerox PARC and Lisp 1.5 on PDP-1 Brendan Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation Brad Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal Dan Smalltalk implementor and designer Simon Peyton Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler Donald Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX Peter Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI Guy Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress Ken Inventor of UNIX Jamie 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.