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Fred Seibel-2

Something for the more pragmatic members of Friam

My son Peter's book "Coders at Work" is out and currently #7 overall at Amazon.

"Coders at Work" is a book of Q&A with fifteen of the leading lights of the of software industry.

You can see the full list at http://www.codersatwork.com

Peter has also put up a little essay on his blog at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/ on the topic of the number of women included in the list--only one--that I am sure many on Friam would find interesting.

Best
Fred

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Stephen Guerin

Re: Something for the more pragmatic members of Friam

It just fell to #8...hopefully with my recent purchase it is back to
#7 soon :-)

Congratulations to Peter, Fred!

-Stephen

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On Sep 24, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Fred Seibel wrote:

> My son Peter's book "Coders at Work" is out and currently #7 overall
> at Amazon.
>
> "Coders at Work" is a book of Q&A with fifteen of the leading
> lights of the of software industry.
>
> You can see the full list at http://www.codersatwork.com
>
> Peter has also put up a little essay on his blog at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/
> on the topic of the number of women included in the list--only one--
> that I am sure many on Friam would find interesting.
>
> Best
> Fred
>
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Gary Schiltz-4

Re: Something for the more pragmatic members of Friam

In reply to this post by Fred Seibel-2

Peter is quite a good writer. I worked through most of his online book "Practical Common Lisp" and really enjoyed it - see www.gigamonkeys.com/book.

;; Gary

On Sep 24, 2009, at 5:15 PM, Fred Seibel wrote:

My son Peter's book "Coders at Work" is out and currently #7 overall at Amazon.

"Coders at Work" is a book of Q&A with fifteen of the leading lights of the of software industry.

You can see the full list at http://www.codersatwork.com

Peter has also put up a little essay on his blog at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/ on the topic of the number of women included in the list--only one--that I am sure many on Friam would find interesting.

Best
Fred

Steve Smith

Re: Something for the more pragmatic members of Friam

In reply to this post by Fred Seibel-2

Congratulations to Peter (and Fred by extension)!

I have to admit that Knuth's quote on the website (Some Highlights) rings way to true to me... but it undermines the principle of re-useability and such.

I wonder if this is just "old-school" or if there is something to it. I don't know how many times I, a colleague or a protege' ended up implementing an algorithm (or more likely set of them) simply because the algorithm subtle or complicated enough that writing it was as easy or easier than understanding someone else's implementation.

I wonder if there is some kind of implied "terminal velocity" implied by this?

My son Peter's book "Coders at Work" is out and currently #7 overall at Amazon.

"Coders at Work" is a book of Q&A with fifteen of the leading lights of the of software industry.

You can see the full list at http://www.codersatwork.com

Peter has also put up a little essay on his blog at http://www.gigamonkeys.com/blog/ on the topic of the number of women included in the list--only one--that I am sure many on Friam would find interesting.

Best
Fred
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Marcus G. Daniels

Re: Something for the more pragmatic members of Friam

In reply to this post by Gary Schiltz-4

> My son Peter's book "Coders at Work" is out and currently #7 overall
> at Amazon.
> "Coders at Work" is a book of Q&A with fifteen of the leading lights
> of the of software industry.
A funny follow-up: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/items/2009/09/23.html

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