C++ / Bjarne Stroustrup -- Python / Guido von Rossum -- APL / Adin D. Falkoff -- Forth / Charles D. Moore -- BASIC / Thomas E. Kurtz -- AWK / Alfred Aho, Peter Weinberger, and Brian Kernighan -- Lua / Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo and Roberto Ierusalimschy -- Haskell / Simon Peyton Jones [and others] -- ML / Robin Milner -- SQL / Don Chamberlin -- Objective-C / Brad Cox and Tom Love -- Java / James Gosling -- C♯ / Anders Hejlsberg -- UML / Ivar Jacobson, James Rumbaugh, and Grady Booch -- Perl / Larry Wall -- PostScript / Charles Geschke and John Warnock -- Eiffel / Bertrand Meyer
Summary
"Masterminds of Programming features exclusive interviews with the creators of several historic and highly influential programming languages. In this unique interview collection, you'll learn about the processes that led to specific design decisions, including the goals these pioneers had in mind, the trade-offs they had to make, and how their experiences have made an impact on programming today."--Page 4 of cover
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Title from resource description page (Safari, viewed August 20, 2009)
