I recently finished reading Coders at Work by Peter Seibel. You can pick up a copy at your local bookstore or on online at places like Chapters or Amazon. You can read Peter’s blog here, also well worth visiting. I found it a great read, though there are a number of typos, format errors, and grammatical mistakes. I do also find he should have cleaned up the format a bit. It’s in an interview format, which is fine, but there are places where it could have flowed better. Sometimes there’s a single interjection by either the author or the coder being interviewed. I didn’t quite see the point as those small interjections didn’t offer much, if anything. However, overall, I really enjoyed the book. There are some nice tidbits, including the overall dislike of C++ — with which I can sympathize. While reading the book I decided to tag passages I thought were insightful or interesting. Here’s a summary. Jamie Zawinski (7) Brad Fitzpatrick (7) Douglas Crockford (12) Brendan Eich (7) Joshua Bloch (7) Joe Armstrong (9) Simon Peyton Jones (4) Peter Norvig (4) Guy Steele (14) Dan Ingalls (7) L Peter Deutsch (13) Ken Thompson (9) Fran Allen (4)
