Peter Seibel
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
14 editions
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2009
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Practical Common LISP
13 editions
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2005
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The Grid
3 editions
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2015
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming Part 1
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2009
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming Part 2
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2009
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Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming Part 3
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2009
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Sztuka kodowania. Sekrety wielkich programistów
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“Armstrong: I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.”
― Coders at Work
― Coders at Work
“We’re all optimists in our profession or we’d be forced to shoot ourselves. - Joshua Bloch”
― Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
― Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
“[On identifying talented programmers] It’s just enthusiasm. You ask them what’s the most interesting program they worked on. And then you get them to describe it and its algorithms and what’s going on. If they can’t withstand my questioning on their program, then they’re not good. I’m asking them to describe something they’ve done that they’ve spent blood on. I’ve never met anybody who really did spend blood on something who wasn’t eager to describe what they’ve done and how they did it and why. I let them pick the subject. I don’t pick the subject, so I’m the amateur and they’re the professional in this subject. If they can’t stand an amateur asking them questions about their profession, then they don’t belong. - Ken Thompson”
― Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
― Coders at Work: Reflections on the Craft of Programming
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