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This book is for people who want to become good programmers. What makes a good programmer? First and foremost, a good programmer has good critical thinking and analysis skills. To solve complex problems, a programmer needs the ability to evaluate whether or not programs actually solve the right problem correctly. This is more difficult than it sounds. It’s not uncommon for an experienced programmer to look at someone else’s program and snarkily comment, “Why, that's a complex nonsolution to a simple nonproblem."
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THE SECRET LIFE OF PROGRAMS. Copyright © 2019 by Jonathan E. Steinhart.
All rights reserved. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any
means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage
or retrieval system, without the prior written permission of the copyright owner and the publisher.
ISBN-10: 1-59327-970-1
ISBN-13: 978-1-59327-970-7
Publisher: William Pollock
Production Editor: Janelle Ludowise
Cover Illustration: Josh Ellingson
Interior Design: Octopod Studios
Developmental Editors: Corbin Collins and Annie Choi
Technical Reviewer: Aubrey Anderson
Copyeditor: Rachel Monaghan
Compositor: Happenstance Type-O-Rama
Proofreader: Paula L. Fleming
Indexer: JoAnne Burek
The following images are attributed as follows: Composition in Figure 6-36 courtesy of Hanalei
Steinhart. Brick wall in Figures 11-3, 11-4, 11-7 and 11-8 from www.cadhatch.com. Figure 14-
25from The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975).
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Steinhart, Jonathan E., author.
Title: The Secret Life of Programs / Jonathan E. Steinhart.
Description: San Francisco : No Starch Press, Inc., [2019]
Identifiers: LCCN 2019018295 (print) | LCCN 2019021631 (ebook) | ISBN
9781593279714 (epub) | ISBN 159327971X (epub) | ISBN 9781593279707 (print)
| ISBN 1593279701 (print)
Subjects: LCSH: Computer programming. | Programming languages (Electronic
computers) | Browsers (Computer programs)
Classification: LCC QA76.6 (ebook) | LCC QA76.6 .S735 2019 (print) | DDC
005.1--dc23
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
There are a lot of influences that contributed to making this book possible. That starts with my
parents Robert and Rosalyn Steinhart for making me possible and then encouraging my interest in
science, at least up to the point at which it started to scare them. Many awesome teachers took it
from there including Beatrice Seagal, William Mulvahill, and Miller Bugliari. Much thanks to Paul
Rubenfield for telling me about both Civil Defense and the Bell Labs Explorer Scout post.
It’s impossible to give enough credit to my Explorer Scout advisors Carl Christiansen and Heinz
Lycklama. They changed my life. Through them I met many amazing people at Bell Telephone
Laboratories including Joe Condon, Sandy Fraser, Dave Hagelbarger, Dick Hause, Jim Kaiser, Hank
McDonald, Max Mathews, Dennis Ritchie, Ken Thompson, and Dave Weller. I learned a lot from each
of them.
Thanks to Aubrey Anderson, Clem Cole, Lee Jalovec, A.C. Mendiones, Ed Post, and Betsy Zeller for
making it through the whole thing at least once. And especially to Aubrey for technical editing.
Thanks also to Matt Blaze, Adam Cecchetti, Sandy Clark, Tom Duff, Natalie Freed, Frank Heidt, DV
Henkel-Wallace (a.k.a Gumby), Lou Katz, Sara-Jaye Terp, Talin, and Paul Vixie for providing
feedback on particular chapters.
And thanks to all of the people who answered the phone when I called with general questions
including Ward Cunningham, John Gilmore, Evelyn Mast, Mike Perry, Alex Polvi, Alan Wirfs-Brock,
and Mike Zuhl. And of course, Rakel Hellberg, the girl on the ski lift, for providing one of the nudges
that motivated me finish this project.
This book would not have been possible without the support and encouragement of people in
various geek communities including AMW, Hackers, and TUHS.
Thanks to Hanalei Steinhart for the composition in Figure 6-36 and to Julie Donnelly for the scarf
in Figure 11-41.
Thanks to Tony Cat for allowing me to use his image and for keeping my keyboard full of fur.
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