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Coders at Work: Reflections on the craft of programmingSeibel: Is there anything that you did specifically to improve your skill as a programmer? Fitzpatrick: Sometimes IБЂ™ll go out of my way to write something in a language that I would rather not write it inБЂ”and I know itБЂ™ll take me longer to write in that languageБЂ”because I know IБЂ™ll be better in the end. Like when I got to Google, there were a lot of times where I was writing one-off things and IБЂ™d go to write it in Perl. Then IБЂ™d be like, БЂњAh, no, I should write this in Python.БЂ«Now I write tons of Python and it doesnБЂ™t bother meБЂ”I barely have to look things up. Perlbal was originally written in C# just to learn that. Seibel: And are there skills apart from programming itself that you think would-be programmers should develop? Fitzpatrick: ThereБЂ™s communication, but IБЂ™m not sure thatБЂ™s something you can really practice. Deal with people on mailing lists a lot. Written communication style goes a long way. But thatБЂ™s a general life thing, right? There was some study about who was successful after high school ...» |
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