“This is the web site for a new book I’m working on for Apress which will contain interviews with around twenty of the most interesting computer programmers alive today. It will be a companion volume to Apress’s Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston, and, like that book, a continuation of the tradition started by the Paris Review in 1953 when they published a Q&A interview with novelist E.M. Forster, innagurating a series of interviews later titled “Writers at Work”. As the words “at work” suggest, my goal is to focus the interviews on how subjects tackle the day-to-day work of programming. Which is not to say we won’t touch on other topics such as how they became great programmers, how they recognize programming talent in others, and what kinds of problems they find most interesting. —Peter Seibel”
