編程人生：15位軟件先驅訪談錄

　　這是一本訪談筆錄，記錄了當今最具個人魅力的15位軟件先驅的編程生涯。包括DonaldKnuth、JamieZawinski、JoshuaBloch、KenThompson等在內的業(yè)界傳奇人物，為我們講述了他們是怎么學習編程的，在編程過程中發(fā)現(xiàn)了什么以及他們對未來的看法，并對諸如應該如何設計軟件等長久以來一直困擾很多程序員的問題談了自己的觀點。《編程人生：15位軟件先驅訪談錄》適合所有程序員，也適合所有對計算機行業(yè)、對軟件開發(fā)感興趣的人。

　　The author of Practical Common Lisp.Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English from Yale and working briefly as a journalist， he was seduced by the web. In the early ''90s he hacked Perl for Mother Jones Magazine and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee...The author of Practical Common Lisp.Peter Seibel is either a writer turned programmer or programmer turned writer. After picking up an undergraduate degree in English from Yale and working briefly as a journalist， he was seduced by the web. In the early ''90s he hacked Perl for Mother Jones Magazine and Organic Online. He participated in the Java revolution as an early employee at WebLogic and later taught Java programming at UC Berkeley Extension. In 2003 he quit his job as the architect of a Java-based transactional messaging system， planning to hack Lisp for a year. Instead he ended up spending two years writing the Jolt Productivity Award-winning Practical Common Lisp. Since then he''s been working as chief monkey at Gigamonkeys Consulting， learning to train chickens， practicing Tai Chi， working on his new book， Coders at Work， and being a dad. He lives in Berkeley， California， with his wife Lily， daughter Amelia， and dog Mahlanie.