Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a 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 ...
Peter Seibel interviews 15 of the most interesting computer programmers alive today in Coders at Work, offering a 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 site: 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 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 and 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 and author of the standard text on AI * Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and 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 What you'll learnHow the best programmers in the world do their jobs! Who this book is 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. Table of Contents * Jamie Zawinski * Brad Fitzpatrick * Douglas Crockford * Brendan Eich * Joshua Bloch * Joe Armstrong * Simon Peyton Jones * Peter Norvig * Guy Steele * Dan Ingalls * L Peter Deutsch * Ken Thompson * Fran Allen * Bernie Cosell * Donald Knuth
Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English from Yale and working briefly as a journalist, he was seduced by the web. In the early '90s he hacked Perl for Mother Jones Magazine and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee...
Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English from Yale and working briefly as a journalist, he was seduced by the web. In the early '90s he hacked Perl for Mother Jones Magazine and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic and later taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. In 2003 he quit his job as the architect of a Java-based transactional messaging system, planning to hack Lisp for a year. Instead he ended up spending two years writing the Jolt Productivity Award-winning Practical Common Lisp. Since then he's been working as chief monkey at Gigamonkeys Consulting, learning to train chickens, practicing Tai Chi, working on his new book, Coders at Work, and being a dad. He lives in Berkeley, California, with his wife Lily, daughter Amelia, and dog Mahlanie.
目录
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Coders at Work—Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Jamie Zawinski
Chapter 2 - Brad Fitzpatrick
Chapter 3 - Douglas Crockford
Chapter 4 - Brendan Eich
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Coders at Work—Reflections on the Craft of Programming
Introduction
Chapter 1 - Jamie Zawinski
Chapter 2 - Brad Fitzpatrick
Chapter 3 - Douglas Crockford
Chapter 4 - Brendan Eich
Chapter 5 - Joshua Bloch
Chapter 6 - Joe Armstrong
Chapter 7 - Simon Peyton Jones
Chapter 8 - Peter Norvig
Chapter 9 - Guy Steele
Chapter 10 - Dan Ingalls
Chapter 11 - L Peter Deutsch
Chapter 12 - Ken Thompson
Chapter 13 - Fran Allen
Chapter 14 - Bernie Cosell
Chapter 15 - Donald Knuth
Appendix A - Bibliography
Index
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不管是面向对象编程，还是函数式编程，不论是基督教还是犹太教，我会吸取其中有用的东西，但是不会全盘接受。
Tony Hoare的图灵奖获奖感言中有一句充满了大智慧的话，讲的是设计一个系统的两种方式：“一种是尽量简单，这样显然不会有什么问题；另外一种是，尽量复杂，这样没什么显然的问题。”
后面说的话同样包含智慧，但是知道的人不多：“第一种方法其实更难。它需要从复杂的自然现象中发现简单物理规律的那种技能、投入、洞察力，甚至是那种灵感，同时还需要你能接受你的目标受限于物理、逻辑和科技的约束，以及在目标间有冲突的时候可以妥协。委员会不会这么做，除非已经完全来不及了，不得不做。” (查看原文)
Well, it was decisions like not using C++ and not using threads that made us ship the product on time. The other big thing was we always shipped all platforms simultaneously; that was another thing they thought was just stupid. "Oh, 90 percent of people are using Windows, so we'll focus on the Windows side of things and then we'll port it later." Which is what many other failed companies have done. If you're trying to ship a cross-platform product, history really shows that's how you don't do it. If you want it to really be cross-platform, you have to do them simultaneously. The porting thing results in a crappy product on the second platform. (查看原文)
Coders at work 书评 很早就在Amazon上看到过这本有些技术八卦性质的书，不过当时更期待的是O'Reilly的Masterminds of programming（中文译名编程之魂），毕竟我对程序设计语言更感兴趣一些，然而被其糟糕透顶的翻译（参照我之前对此书中文译版的评论）折磨了一顿之后，我是再...
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0 有用 茨威格 2012-10-16 19:48:22
转了一本在kindle上看，每天看一点儿。
1 有用 Juanito 2011-12-14 18:16:03
Most of them started programming around 10...
1 有用 Jeao&Leon 2013-08-11 20:58:41
以为是09年开边记录只是11年的年初。600多页，慢慢啃了这么多年，直到今天在地铁上翻完最后一页。 别人的经历都很精彩，尤其是本书前面的几个，大概作者故意的吧，吸引别人的眼球。中间一些说实话索然无味，最后的大神没爆料几个故事甚是可惜。
0 有用 Garf 2012-05-20 22:45:40
如何成为一个coder呢……
0 有用 Lucia 2014-07-17 22:50:35
本来以为是就某一话题讨论，结果成人生历程了
0 有用 爱简姨 2023-10-22 13:20:21 英国
没啥广泛的参考价值
0 有用 小熊 2023-01-12 08:08:18 浙江
也是在学校时读过的书，那时看充满期许和希望，现在又是另一番感受。
0 有用 qfny 2022-04-23 13:13:45
采访每个人都要提到knuth。
0 有用 姐腰疼 2020-01-08 13:29:23
thompson的访谈很有趣
0 有用 Summer 2018-08-07 16:09:49
刚开始的时候确实很好看，后来真的是专业不同好几个读不下去的