Programmer's cry: An old programmer familiar with multiple languages thinks more about programming languages, development processes, and Google's strategies. Five-Star recommendation

The author is familiar with twenty or thirty programming languages and has written more than 20 years of code. This book is the author of the programming language, development process, Google's strategy and so on. More interesting.

The previous part is the author's thoughts on the programming language. The author despises C + +, Java, object-oriented. Interestingly, the author divides programming language and thought into two camps of freedom and conservatism. Liberals want to release quickly, tolerate bugs and security flaws, and conservatives value security and robustness

The authors believe that the design of a good weak-type system is more competitive than the same excellent strong-type system.

The author advocates streamlining, thinking that the biggest enemy of code is the physique, which is the number of lines of code.

The authors believe that Perl and Python have a similar presence in two languages and that the Perl market share is much higher because of the genius marketing of the Perl founders, including the support of OReilly publishers.

The author talks about Google's interview. He believes that the interviewer's personal skills and personality experience will affect the outcome of the interview, the interview is full of accidents. Of course, the interview through the full conditions are still some, the author most value is the algorithm and data structure.

The author of Google's development process is perfect: There are strict unit testing, design documents, code review, code base uniform, as from one person's hand, the manager at least half the time to write code; quiet environment, No Gantt Chart task table, excellent program staff for their honor and work hard.

The author believes that Google's flaw is not to do a platform awareness, failed to make a relatively large platform. Amazon and Facebook have succeeded in making the platform.

Programmer's cry: An old programmer familiar with multiple languages thinks more about programming languages, development processes, and Google's strategies. Five-Star recommendation