本书是多位编程语言创造者的独家采访。从这部独特的采访集中，你将了解到某些特殊设计决定产生的过程，包括这些先行者当时头脑中的既定目标、他们不得不做的折衷权衡，以及这些宝贵经验至今对编程产生了怎样的影响。

《编程大师智慧》的主要特色在于它是多位编程语言创造者的独家采访，他们创造的这些编程语言极具历史意义，对于当下的信息社会产生了重大影响。从这部独特的采访集中，你将了解到某些特殊设计决定产生的过程，包括这些先行者当时头脑中的既定目标、他们不得不做的折衷权衡，以及这些宝贵经验至今对编程产生了怎样的影响。

如果你对那些用远见卓识和努力工作造就计算机产业的人们感兴趣的话，那么自然会发现《编程大师智慧》是一本令人着迷的好书。

FOREWORD

PREFACE

1 C++

 Design Decisions

 Using the Language

 OOP and Concurrency

 Future

 Teaching

2 PYTHON

 The Pythonic Way

 The Good Programmer

 Multiple Pythons

 Expedients and Experience

3 APL

 Paper and Pencil

 Elementary Principles

 Parallelism

 Legacy

4 FORTH

 The Forth Language and Language Design

 Hardware

 Application Design

5 BASIC

 The Goals Behind BASIC

 Compiler Design

 Language and Programming Practice

 Langua~'e Design

 Work Goals

6 AWK

 The Life of Algorithms

 Language Design

 Unix and Its Culture

 The Role of Documentation

 Computer Science

 Breeding Little Languages

 Designing a New Language

 Legacy Culture

 Transformative Technologies

 Bits Ttiat Change the Universe

 Theory and Practice

 Waiting for a Breakthrough

 Programming by Example

7 LUA

 The Power of Scripting

 Experience

 Language Design

8 HASKELL

 A Functional Team

 Trajectory of Functional Programming

 The Haskell Language

 Spreading (Functional) Education

 Formalism and Evolution

9 ML

 The Soundness of Theorems

 The Theory of Meaning

 Beyond Informatics

10 SQL

 A Seminal Paper

 The Language

 Feedback and Evolution

 XQuery and XML

11 OBJECTIVE-C

 Eng'ineering Objective-C

 Growing a Language

 Education and Training

 Project Management and Legacy Software

 Objective-C and Other Languages

 Components, Sand, and Bricks

 Quality As an Economic Phenomenon

 Education

12 JAVA

 Power or Simplicity

 A Matter of Taste

 Concurrency

 Designing a Languae

 Feedback Loop

13 C#

 Language and Design

 Growing a Language

 C#

 The Future of Computer Science

14 UML

 Learning and Teaching

 The Role of the People

 UML

 Knowledge

 Be Ready for Change

 UsingUML

 Layers and Languages

 A Bit of Reusability

 Symmetric Relationships

 UML

 Language Design

 Training Developers

 Creativity, Refinement, and Patterns

15 PERL

 The Language of Revolutions

 Language

 Community

 Evolution and Revolution

16 POSTSCRIPT

 Designed to Last

 Research and Education

 Interfaces to Longevity

 Standard Wishes

17 EIFFEL

 An Inspired Afternoon

 Reusability and Genericity

 Proofreading Languages

 Managing Growth and Evolution

AFTERWORD

CONTRIBUTORS

INDEX