Richard P. Gabriel
Autore di Patterns of Software: Tales from the Software Community
Sull'Autore
Poet and computer scientist Richard P. Gabriel, Ph.D., M.F.A., introduced the writers' workshop to the software patterns community. His poetry has appeared in numerous literary magazines
Fonte dell'immagine: From RPG's Website: "This is my official photo. If you are thinking of inviting me to a conference or an event and a photo like this would turn off your audience, then I am the wrong guy." (RPG, you are my hero)
Opere di Richard P. Gabriel
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Informazioni generali
- Data di nascita
- 1949
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Merrimac, Massachusetts
- Istruzione
- Northeastern University
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
University of Illinois
Stanford University
Warren Wilson College - Organizzazioni
- ACM (Fellow, 1998)
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Allen Newell Award (2004)
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Statistiche
- Opere
- 3
- Utenti
- 262
- Popolarità
- #87,814
- Voto
- 3.8
- Recensioni
- 2
- ISBN
- 9
The second section is autobiographical and it was interesting to read about the author's life and motivations.
The third section was about running the company Lucid in the 1990s. So much effort was poured into LISP at that time and it all went nowhere. Gabriel writes as a bemused ex-CEO; he doesn't give the impression that he knew what he was doing most of the time and he certainly had no prescience about the ultimate fate of his company.
Finally there is a sadly dated section about successful technologies of the 1990s ('Worse is Better').
I found the first sections of the book to be the most interesting, especially the first, which gropes for a better way of making 'good' software.… (altro)