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Coders At Work is a book about a lot of high-profile programmers (Crockford, Knuth, Peyton Jones, Thompson, among others). It's not a biography on any of these
by chriseidhof 17y ago
Coders At Work is a book about a lot of high-profile programmers (Crockford, Knuth, Peyton Jones, Thompson, among others). It's not a biography on any of these people, but it was very inspiring to me.
- ivenkys 17y agoThis plus Founders At Work and as a side note - John Carmack's original .plan files. He goes into great details about issues he was having with Video cards(NVIdia vs. ATI), 3D rendering etc and then his plans of how he was going to tackle them, the approaches he tried, what did not work etc. I somehow find them very unvarnished and inspirational.
- JamieEi 17y agoCoders at Work was very inspiring to me and also gave me the functional programming bug. It seemed like every one of the legends interviewed had something nice to say about Haskell (deserved IMO). Founders at Work is also great but in some ways more of a business book. If you want to do a startup it is incredibly inspirational. Another oldie but goodie is Tracy Kidder's Soul of a New Machine. http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/0316491977/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1263916384&sr=8-6 http://www.amazon.com/Soul-New-Machine-Tracy-Kidder/dp/03164...