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Title: Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
Publisher: O'Reilly Media
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0596515170
ISBN 13: 9780596515171
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good

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Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. In this unique collection, you'll learn about the processes that led to specific design decisions, including the goals they had in mind, the trade-offs they had to make, and how their experiences have left an impact on programming today. Masterminds of Programming includes individual interviews with:

Adin D. Falkoff: APL
Thomas E. Kurtz: BASIC
Charles H. Moore: FORTH
Robin Milner: ML
Donald D. Chamberlin: SQL
Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan: AWK
Charles Geschke and John Warnock: PostScript
Bjarne Stroustrup: C++
Bertrand Meyer: Eiffel
Brad Cox and Tom Love: Objective-C
Larry Wall: Perl
Simon Peyton Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, and John Hughes: Haskell
Guido van Rossum: Python
Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy: Lua
James Gosling: Java
Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh: UML
Anders Hejlsberg: Delphi inventor and lead developer of C#

If you're interested in the people whose vision and hard work helped shape the computer industry, you'll find Masterminds of Programming fascinating.

About the Authors

Federico Biancuzzi is a freelance interviewer. His interviews appeared on publications such as ONLamp.com, LinuxDevCenter.com, SecurityFocus.com, NewsForge.com, Linux.com, TheRegister.co.uk, ArsTechnica.com, the Polish print magazine BSD Magazine, and the Italian print magazine Linux&C.

Shane Warden manages Onyx Neon Press, an independent publisher. His areas of expertise include agile software development, language design, and virtual machines for dynamic languages. He is also a published novelist. His books include The Art of Agile Development and Masterminds of Programming.

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