Tag: Career
All the articles with the tag "Career".
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Programming is harder than writing books? - Vision of Donald Knuth
Seibel: Do you think you were a dramatically better programmer when you finished TeX than when you started? Knuth: Well, yes, because of literate programming. Seibel: So you had better tools, but had
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Freshman computer scientists shouldn't touch a computer. What does Donald Knuth think about that?
The most named person in the book: Donald Knuth. The author of "The Art of computer programming" Many people, including me, have not read it. But it justifies us. Seibel: Uh-oh; you just revealed your
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Why Ken Thompson's son was not encouraged to study computer science?
Ken Thompson. One of the most famous Computer Scientist of the book and in the field. He become famous because a series of creations, being Unix the most relevant. Seibel: In a 1999 interview you
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Coder, programmer or computer scientist? Peter Deutsch gives us an answer
Seibel: You were the only person I contacted about this book who had a really strong reaction to the word coder in the title. How would you prefer to describe yourself? Deutsch: I have to say at this
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How to be a lead by Dan Ingalls
Daniel (Dan) Ingalls is one of the creators of Smalltak. Other interesting development of engals was the Context Menu Seibel: Do you have any tips on how to be a good technical leader? Ingalls: The
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Talent as a programmer and talent as system-level thinkin. Peter Deutsch talks about that
Perhaps the most forgotten for the massive public of the book. But, if you use the REPL you you are making a silent tribute, because the first REPL was created by Laurence Peter Deutsch. Link to
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Readability and efficiency in your code. Guy Steele analyze this trade-of
Seibel: So when you’re writing English, you’re obviously writing for a human reader and you seem to contrast that to writing software, which is for a computer. But lots of people—such as Knuth—make a
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The language nowadays are easier? Guy Steele's answer
Seibel: Do you think languages are getting better? You keep designing them, so hopefully you think it’s a worthwhile pursuit. Is it easier to write software now because of advances that we’ve made?