By Shane Warden, Federico Biancuzzi
Masterminds of Programming beneficial properties particular interviews with the creators of numerous old and hugely influential programming languages. during this distinct assortment, you'll find out about the techniques that resulted in particular layout judgements, together with the targets they'd in brain, the trade-offs that they had to make, and the way their stories have left an impression on programming this present day. Masterminds of Programming comprises person interviews with:
-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#
If you're drawn to the folks whose imaginative and prescient and difficult paintings contributed to shaping the pc undefined, you'll locate Masterminds of Programming attention-grabbing.
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