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Save 40% off list price on all ebooks, audio books, and screencasts. Use coupon code SpringCleaning2017 at checkout.
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Today (2017-05-25) Peter Seibelâs Coders at Work (2009) is the Apress Daily Deal for US$ 9.99
It contains interviews with :
- Jamie Zawinski: Author of XEmacs and early Netscape/Mozilla hacker
- Brad Fitzpatrick: Writer of LiveJournal, OpenID, memcached, and Perlbal
- Douglas Crockford: JSON founder, JavaScript architect at Yahoo!
- Brendan Eich: Inventor of JavaScript, CTO of the Mozilla Corporation
- Joshua Bloch: Author of the Java collections framework, now at Google
- Simon Peyton Jones: Coinventor of Haskell and lead designer of Glasgow Haskell Compiler
- Peter Norvig: Director of Research at Google and author of the standard text on AI
- Guy Steele: Coinventor of Scheme and part of the Common Lisp Gang of Five, currently working on Fortress
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- Donald Knuth: Author of The Art of Computer Programming and creator of TeX
and of course
- Joe Armstrong: Inventor of Erlang
which contains the (in)famous quote:
I think the lack of reusability comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is theyâve got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but what you got was a gorilla holding the banana and the entire jungle.
Joe cracks me up
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Today 2017-07-03 Erlang and Elixir for Imperative Programmers is the Daily Deal at Apress.com for US$ 9.99
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Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core processâtaking a requirement and producing working, maintainable code that delights its users. Andrew Hunt and Dave Thomas cover topics ranging from personal responsibility and career development to architectural techniques for keeping your code flexible and easy to adapt and reuse.
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