Coders at Work (2009) (edit title/settings)

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• Donald Knuth
• Fitzpatrick
• Crockford
• Bloch
• Armstrong
• Perl
• Haskell
• Peyton Jones
• Dijkstra
• Python
• Moore
• Alan Kay
• Doug
• Stallman
• Robert
• Google
• Cosell
• Tony Hoare
• Danny
• Frank
• Michie

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• “Every now and then I feel a temptation to design a programming language but then I just lie down until it goes away.”

  L Peter Deutsch

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• At the end of the day, ship the fucking thing! It's great to rewrite your code and make it cleaner and by the third time it'll actually be pretty. But that's not the point-you're not here to write code; you're here to ship products.

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• 'One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.'

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• Readability of code is now my first priority. It's more important than being fast, almost as important as being correct, but I think being readable is actually the most likely way of making it correct.

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• I think one thing that's really important is to not be afraid of your ignorance. If you don't understand how something works, ask someone who does. A lot of people are skittish about that. And that doesn't help anybody. Not knowing something doesn't mean you're dumb-it just means you don't know it yet.

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• You were asking earlier what should one do to become a better programmer? Spend 20 percent of your time learning stuff-because it's compounded.

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• But the fundamental rule is, write the code that uses the API before you write the code that implements it.

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• the cleaner and nicer the program, the faster it's going to run. And if it doesn't, it'll be easy to make it fast. As they say, it's easier to optimize correct code than to correct optimized code.

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• The most depressing thing about life as a programmer, I think, is if you're faced with a chunk of code that either someone else wrote or, worse still, you wrote yourself but you no longer dare to modify. That's depressing.

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• In practice, nothing works. There are all these beautiful abstractions that are backed by shit. The implementation of libraries that look like they could be beautiful are shit.

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• Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs, which a lot of people are afraid of because it's Lispy, but I think does a really good job of teaching programming without teaching a language.

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Setting & Locations edit see section history

• Erlang
• Berkeley
• Smalltalk
• Mozilla
• Cambridge
• Ghostscript
• Bell Labs
• Edinburgh
• C.s.
• Valgrind
• Harvard
• Stanford
• Pascal

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1. Peter Seibel (Author)

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• Dewey: 005.1

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• Books › Computers & Internet › Programming › Software Design, Testing & Engineering › Software Development

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