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Programmers At Work, 22 Years Later

Posted by kdawson on from the still-crazy-after-all-these-years dept.

Firebones writes "In 1986, the book Programmers at Work presented interviews with 19 programmers and software designers from the early days of personal computing including Charles Simonyi, Andy Hertzfeld, Ray Ozzie, Bill Gates, and Pac Man programmer Toru Iwatani. Leonard Richardson tracked down these pioneers and has compiled a nice summary of where they are now, 22 years later."

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  1. Re:wow by eldavojohn · · Score: 5, Insightful

    killer site design.... Yes, crummy.com certainly is crummy. But you must admit that it is still up after going live on the front page of Slashdot. Can your image laden, flash driven, AJAX-ified, web 2.0 site claim that?

    It's also licensed under the creative commons and has not one ad. Can your site say that?

    Sometimes, a bulleted list of black text on a white background is a godsend to these old eyes and more than gets the jobs done.
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    My work here is dung.
  2. Re:wow by ipb · · Score: 5, Insightful

    * text is too wide, 66 characters is said to be the ideal. At my resolution, I got lines with >150 chars, That's not a bug, that's a feature.
    I absolutely loathe sites that don't expand to match the width of my browser.
    On a 1920x1200 screen any site that only lets me see 66 characters will earn my wrath forever.