Coders at Work by Peter SeibelMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
A wonderful book which gives insight into the thinking of the "Programming" Gurus or the "Coding" Gurus.
Most of them consider Donald Knuth's books "The Art of Computer Programming" as an important set of books to be ready by all programmers.
There is no consensus on if they consider themselves to be a Scientist, a Craftsman, an Artist or an Engineer. Most agree that they are not Scientist although the word "Computer Science" seems to be use freely. If one summarizes their statements it would appear that they consider themselves to be a combination of the remaining three depending on the point of view or the level at which they are working.
Most of them agree that C++ is a bad language. They feel it is too complicated for somebody to use it. There was one person who felt C was a bad language because it allows introduction of too many bugs and it was felt that it should remained a language in which the Gurus wrote the operating system and application developers should have been limited to building applications in easier languages.
It is a very interesting read for the people in the IT industry. It will be an insight for the new entrants into this field to learn about punchcards etc.
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