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Writing, Technically with James Somers

Signals and Threads

CHAPTER

Coder's at Work Interview With Snuth

Tech was an artifact which is a quite big and complicated piece of software but could basically fit in his head so he could get away with it. It's hard to see how that advice scales up to larger programs or to less smart people. And I think some programs that are the product of a single mind are just very different in nature and architecture than programs that areThe product of a team. So when an otorred piece of software becomes a maintained piece of software, that is the real art of computer programming beyond the algorithm's stuff.

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