Federico Biancuzzi, Shane Warden

Masterminds of Programming

Conversations with the Creators of Major Programming Languages

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. In this unique collection, you'll learn about the processes that led to specific design decisions, including the goals they had in mind, the trade-offs they had to make, and how their experiences have left an impact on programming today. Masterminds of Programming includes individual 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 sharp If you're interested in the people whose vision and hard work helped shape the computer industry, you'll find Masterminds of Programming fascinating.

Produktdetails

• Theory In Practice
• Verlag: O'Reilly Media
• Seitenzahl: 494
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 179mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 857g
• ISBN-13: 9780596515171
• ISBN-10: 0596515170
• Artikelnr.: 22963727

Autorenporträt

Federico Biancuzzi is a freelance interviewer. His interviews appeared on publications such as ONLamp.com, LinuxDevCenter.com, SecurityFocus.com, NewsForge.com, Linux.com, TheRegister.co.uk, ArsTechnica.com, the Polish print magazine BSD Magazine, and the Italian print magazine Linux&C.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
Preface
Chapter 1: C++
Chapter 2: Python
Chapter 3: APL
Chapter 4: Forth
Chapter 5: BASIC
Chapter 6: AWK
Chapter 7: Lua
Chapter 8: Haskell
Chapter 9: ML
Chapter 10: SQL
Chapter 11: Objective-C
Chapter 12: Java
Chapter 13: C#
Chapter 14: UML
Chapter 15: Perl
Chapter 16: PostScript
Chapter 17: Eiffel
ABOUT THE INTERVIEWERS
Afterword
Contributors
COLOPHON

Rezensionen

"Individuelle Interviews statt immer derselbe Fragebogen erhöhen den Lesespaß, wenn Bjarne Stroustrup, James Gosling, Anders Hejlsberg, Larry Wall und andere sich über ihre Sprache äußern." -- iX, Mai 2009