The author of Practical Common Lisp.
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.
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
除了第一篇的Jamie还算年轻,其他都是老江湖了。访谈的话题话题,对于普通的计算机从业者来说比较晦涩,即便是能理解,那些上古的内容,泛泛一看没什么启发。觉得有些收获的是这些业界泰斗们对整个行业和他们职业生涯的看法,很难想象有真么多在计算机世界里浸淫几十年的精英。他们对...
評分多人翻译的,水平参差不齐,有些段落都读不通。 采访的全是硬核开发者。好几位都说自己会用 Emacs 编写代码,没有提到用 Vim 的。不知是不是年代特色,受 Lisp 熏陶所致。除了一位大量使用 C++,有好几位都表示对 C++ 的厌恶。基本都是从机器码开始学习编程,重视阅读源代码,...
評分以访谈录的形式来将15位软件先驱的方方面面融合到一本书,起码对于采访者有非常高的要求,这点来说,Peter Seibel做的非常成功,他对技术及程序员到软件先驱的成长路上的经验与挑战有很好的把握,也就是说,通过Peter的访谈,读者基本能找到自己想要的,也正是本书的一大特色,...
評分我要站出来批评一下那个名为“去他的算法内功基础,对于程序员,实用主义才是王道” 的评论(我的评论对事不对人)。 首先我要说,这个观点绝对是错误的。表面上这句话好像抓住了“实用主义”的大旗,但却借此抨击算法等基本功的重要性,太误人子弟。就拿Google Fellow Jeff D...
評分Will I ever become a good programmer?
评分終於讀完瞭,from cover to cover。
评分看八卦還是比看技術書輕鬆啊~
评分膜拜一下10歲齣頭開始編程的大牛們= =
评分斷斷續續看瞭一年
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