S9:E8 - Why you should read the new edition of the Pragmatic Programmer (Andy Hunt, Dave Thomas)

The Pragmatic Programmer was published in 1999 by software engineers Andy Hunt and Dave Thomas, and is considered to be one of the quintessential books on programming. For its 20th anniversary edition, we chat with Andy and Dave about the book’s impact, what’s changed in the new edition, and what remains the same, along with things they’ve learned over the past 20 years. Show Links Digital Ocean (sponsor) Educative (sponsor) Heroku (sponsor) Career Karma (sponsor) CodeNewbie Survey Elixir C++ Java JavaScript Don't repeat yourself (DRY) Orthogonality Programming by Coincidence AltaVista COBRA Remote Method Invocation (RMI) Eiffel Agile Manifesto Metaprogramming BASIC Mainframe computers Lisp