Programmers at Work: Interviews With 19 Programmers Who Shaped the Computer Industry

Programmers at Work brings together a set of in-depth conversations with leading software developers of their era. Each interview draws out the background, the turning points and the personal temperament that led a particular engineer toward building the tools and systems that defined the field. Rather than following a single narrative, the book lets each speaker tell their own story in their own voice, so readers gather a picture of how the computer industry took shape through many individual journeys. It suits anyone curious about how the people behind early software actually thought and worked, and what they felt was important along the way.