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Thanks 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
by frik 12y ago
Thanks 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.).)