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    Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages

    By Federico Biancuzzi and Chromatic

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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.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherO'Reilly Media, Inc.
    Release dateMar 21, 2009
    ISBN9780596550943
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    Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages
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    Federico Biancuzzi

    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.

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      I think I have a hangover from my computer science undergraduate days as seeing language developers with a certain amount of awe. One side-effect of reading this set of interviews is that I have a much better picture of the diversity of language designers and it seems much more approachable now.A few of the interviews seem rough, as if the interviewer and interviewee weren't quite talking about the same thing. Also, it seemed like for one or two of the group interviews that there were separate interviews that were combined. There isn't as much computer science history in here as I had expected. More discussion revolved around current programming practices and future challenges. Not a bad thing, but it is a little suprising.