By Susan Lammers

A suite of interviews that probe the minds of 20 of the main impressive programmers. They spotlight the forces, occasions and the character qualities that motivated contemporary software program movers and shakers - how they process layout, is it a talent?, and the way they see the long run. one of the interviewees are Andy Hertzfield (Macintosh working System), John Warnock (Postscript) and C. Wayne Ratcliff (dBASE).

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I really enjoy seeing other people use the fruits of my labor. That’s the ultimate satisfaction. INTERVIEWER: What’s your work routine? Do you work mostly at your office or home? WARNOCK: I do work at home, but I also work at the office and travel a lot. I talk to customers and I speak at conferences. Right now my function is a combination of doing some inside work and a lot of outside work. INTERVIEWER: Has owning your own business changed your life in a significant way? WARNOCK: Yes. In the first year and a half I worked almost totally on development, getting everything to work.

The editor in the DR Logo interpreter is a good example. I had some pieces of code I knew were not quite right--it worked fine but hadn't factored out correctly and just wasn't right. The engineers who took over the code zeroed in on that piece of programming, but we didn't have time to make changes because we had to get the product out. That's the kind of thing you hope never happens, but it does sometimes, so you go back and fix it, and learn something about your style. com INTERVIEWER: Do you think programming is something you can practice as you would practice the piano?

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