Book Review: Masterminds of Programming

Book Review: Masterminds of Programming Edited by Federico Biancuzzi and Shane Warden: Publisher- O’Reilly: ISBN- 13: 978-0-596-51517-1

As the name of the book suggest, this book contains interviews with software legendary personalities who has put good part of their career in development of computer languages.

As expected book does not contain any technical details but gives insight of design philosophies of the different languages. It also exposes some of the legendary personalities as normal humans – full of faults.

I specially like interview with Don Chamberlin who talks in details of SQL design philosophy. Talk with Thomas Kurtz depicts determinism of him to maintain BASIC.

Do not expect too much from this book but it is good aeroplane read.


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