Great Programmers Speak Out
Posted by Skrud at Monday, July 24th 2006 at 9:56am
A number of top names in programming were recently interviewed, being asked questions ranging from how they learned to program, how useful is math (really), and which books they read. The interviewees include Linus Torvalds, the creator of the Linux operating system and Steve Yegge, one of my favourite bloggers. Java creator James Gosling and Python creator Guido van Rossum are also on the roster, as is David Heinemeier Hansson of Ruby on Rails fame and a number of others.
Even if you haven’t heard of any of these programmers, if you have even the slightest interest in programming I highly suggest reading the article. The insights are pretty interesting.
Guido Van Rossum:
Your questions are rather general and hard to answer. :-) I guess being able to cook an egg for breakfast is invaluable.
Awesome… :)
Yeah, that advice will help me be a better programmer in the future :P
But, now, I have a lot of new books to read, and new technology to read up on it.