[9fans] New book (Not entirely OT)

[9fans] New book (Not entirely OT)

[Andrew Simmons]

It's probably a bit hypocriticalist of me to post anything off-topic
at this point, but why break the habits of a lifetime?

Some people here might enjoy a new book from Apress called "Coders at
Work". It consists of interviews with people including Ken Thompson,
Don Knuth, and Jamie Zawinski (key quote from the latter: "C++ is just
an abomination. Everything is wrong with it in every way.")

Re: [9fans] New book (Not entirely OT)

[LiteStar numnums]

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LtU has an overview, for those interested:
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/3613

On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 4:20 AM, Andrew Simmons <kodogo@gmail.com> wrote:

> It's probably a bit hypocriticalist of me to post anything off-topic
> at this point, but why break the habits of a lifetime?
>
> Some people here might enjoy a new book from Apress called "Coders at
> Work". It consists of interviews with people including Ken Thompson,
> Don Knuth, and Jamie Zawinski (key quote from the latter: "C++ is just
> an abomination. Everything is wrong with it in every way.")
>
>


--
And in the "Only Prolog programmers will find this funny" department:

Q: How many Prolog programmers does it take to change a lightbulb?

A: No.
 -- Ovid

   "By cosmic rule, as day yields night, so winter summer, war peace, plenty
famine. All things change. Air penetrates the lump of myrrh, until the
joining bodies die and rise again in smoke called incense."

   "Men do not know how that which is drawn in different directions
harmonises with itself. The harmonious structure of the world depends upon
opposite tension like that of the bow and the lyre."

   "This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god
or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire,
kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures"
-- Heraclitus

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