"Leading programmers explain how they think" -- front cover. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
long-term benefits of beautiful design / Adam Kolawa -- Preface -- 15. The regular expression matcher / Brian Kernighan -- 2. Subversion's delta editor : interface as ontology / Karl Fogel -- 3. The most beautiful code I never wrote / Jon Bentley -- 4. Finding things / Tim Bray -- 5. Correct, beautiful, fast (in that order) : lessons from designing XML verifiers / Elliotte Rusty Harold -- 6. Framework for integrated test : beauty through fragility / Michael Feathers -- 7. Beautiful tests / Alberto Savoia -- 8. On-the-fly code generation for image processing / Charles Petzold -- 9. Top down operator precedence / Douglas Crockford -- 10. The quest for an accelerated population count / Henry S. Warren, Jr. -- 11. Secure communication : the technology of freedom / Ashish Gulhati -- 12. Growing beautiful code in bioperl / Lincoln Stein -- 13. The design of the gene sorter / Jim Kent -- 14. How elegant code evolves with hardware : the case of Gaussian elimination / Jack Dongarra and Piotr Luszczek -- 15. The long-term benefits of beautiful design / Adam Kolawa -- 33. Index. Andy Oram -- 17. Another level of indirection / Diomidis Spinellis -- 18. Python's dictionary implementation : being all things to all people / Andrew Kuchling -- 19. Multidimensional iterators in numpy / Travis E. Oliphant -- 20. A highly reliable enterprise system for Nasa's mars rover mission / Ronald Mak -- 21. ERP5 : designing for maximum adaptability / Rogerio Atem de Carvalho and Rafael Monnerat -- 22. A spoonful of sewage / Bryan Gantrill -- 23. Distributed programming with MapReduce / Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat -- 24. Beautiful concurrency / Simon Peyton Jones -- 25. Syntactic abstraction : the syntax-case expander / R. Kent Dybuig -- 26. Labor-saving architecture : an object-oriented framework for networked software / William R. Otte and Douglas C. Schmidt -- 27. Integrating business partners the restful way / Andrew Patzer -- 28. Beautiful debugging / Andres Zeller -- 29. Treating code as an essay / Yukihiro Matsumoto -- 30. When a button is all that connects you to the world / Arun Mehta -- 31. Emacspeak : the complete audio desktop / T. V. Raman -- 32. Code in motion / Laura Wingerd and Christopher Swiwald -- 33. Writing programs for "the book" / Brian Hayes -- Afterword / Andy Oram -- Contributors -- Index.
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