编程人生：15位软件先驱访谈录

　　这是一本访谈笔录，记录了当今最具个人魅力的15位软件先驱的编程生涯。包括DonaldKnuth、JamieZawinski、JoshuaBloch、KenThompson等在内的业界传奇人物，为我们讲述了他们是怎么学习编程的，在编程过程中发现了什么以及他们对未来的看法，并对诸如应该如何设计软件等长久以来一直困扰很多程序员的问题谈了自己的观点。《编程人生：15位软件先驱访谈录》适合所有程序员，也适合所有对计算机行业、对软件开发感兴趣的人。

　　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.