Category: Notes

Continuing the ideas that Joshua Bloch gave us, that has started on this post: Joshua Bloch and his tier list of book here we can see an interesting one: Seibel: Why do people get so religious about their computer languages? Bloch: I don’t know. But when you choose a language, you’re choosing more than a

Joshua Bloch a software engineer related, contributor and (in some way) evangelist of Java has been asking at the time Coders at Work was published about the books of every programmer should read. Seibel: Are there any books that every programmer should read? Bloch: An obvious one, which I have slightly mixed feelings about but

The creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich was asked about the programming languages and the time Seibel: Do you feel at all that programming is a young person’s game? Eich: I think young people have enormous advantages, just physiological advantages to do with the brain. What they don’t have is the wisdom! You get crustier and

The creator of JavaScript, Brendan Eich was asked about the programming languages and the time Seibel: In general do you feel like languages are getting better over time? Eich: I think so, yeah. Maybe we’re entering the second golden age; there’s more interest in languages and more language creation. We talk about programming: we need

Douglas Crockford, well known because he was the first person who specified the JSON format was asked about the question of detect the talent in a programmer. Seibel: When you’re hiring programmers, how do you recognize the good ones? Crockford: The approach I’ve taken now is to do a code reading. I invite the candidate

Jamie Zawinski is known about some things he has created. But, besides that, when he was asked about how he see himself he gave a really interesting answer: Seibel: That brings me to another of my standard questions: do you, as a programmer, think of yourself as a scientist or an engineer or an artist