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The A-Z of Programming Languages (2008)
- shanusmagnus 12y agoCool resource. Super annoying that you read two paragraphs and then have to click through five "Next" pages to read a single interview, though. Ah, the advertising model. I suppose I shouldn't complain.
- frik 12y agoThanks for the great resource! Similar interviews are in the following book from 2009. (I am not related to the book, I just read it years ago) Masterminds of Programming: Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations-Creators-Languages-ebook/dp/B0043D2EEU/ http://www.amazon.com/Masterminds-Programming-Conversations-... [...] exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages [...] • Adin D. Falkoff: APL • Thomas E. Kurtz: BASIC • Charles H. Moore: FORTH • Robin Milner: ML • Donald D. Chamberlin: SQL • Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan: AWK • Charles Geschke and John Warnock: PostScript • Bjarne Stroustrup: C++ • Bertrand Meyer: Eiffel • Brad Cox and Tom Love: Objective-C • Larry Wall: Perl • Simon Peyton Jones, Paul Hudak, Philip Wadler, and John Hughes: Haskell • Guido van Rossum: Python • Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy: Lua • James Gosling: Java • Grady Booch, Ivar Jacobson, and James Rumbaugh: UML • Anders Hejlsberg: Delphi inventor and lead developer of C# (Neither the The A-Z of Programming Languages nor Masterminds of Programming interviewed Niklaus Wirth (Pascal, Oberon, etc.).)