Peter Seibel is a great interviewer and asks some really interesting questions. Of all the subjects in this book, a few stood out:

• Jamie Zawinski for his down to eart, no-bullshit, and pragmatic take on things.
• Brad Fitzpatrick for his interesting and relevant stories from the makings of Livejournal.
• Brendan Eich for his explanations of why he (had to) design JavaScript the way it is.
• Bernie Cosell for his fantastic stories of how great programmers worked in the 60s, 70s, and 80s.
• Donal Knuth for his non-elitist answers (although he could get away with acting elitist).

After reading this book I feel I've missed out since Ive never gotten around to learning to program in assembly or really dive into C coding. There are some lower parts of computer architecture that I've never learned much about since the languages I've used have conveniently abstracted those parts away ...

• uggedal
• October 29, 2009
• Coders at Work
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