You will learn what they think about the future of programming and how they themselves learned to program, how, in their opinion, software should be designed
Programmers are not very public people, many work alone or in small groups. And the most important and interesting part of their work is not visible to anyone, because it takes place in their heads. Peter Seibel, a writer-programmer, removes the veil of mystery from this profession. He has interviewed 15 of the greatest professionals: Ken Thompson, the creator of UNIX, Bernie Kozell, a member of the first implementation of ARPANET, Donald Knuth, Guy Steele, Jamie Zawinski, Simon Payton-Jones, Peter Norvig, Douglas Crockford, Joshua Bloch, Brendan Ike, Joe Armstrong, Brad Fitzpatrick, creator of LiveJournal, and others.
All of them had been hooked on programming since high school. At that time, in the early days of the industry, very few schools offered courses in computer science. Therefore, the future gurus had to conquer professional heights on their own, but all of them are distinguished by creative burning and total dedication to the work they love.
You will learn what they think about the future of programming and how they themselves learned to program, how, in their opinion, software should be designed, how the choice of programming language affects productivity, and whether it is possible to facilitate the detection of hard-to-find bugs.