The message below describes where and how to find this version. Please note that along with this version is the first cut at a localization package for ADL - Japanese. Computer Science is Dead by Phil Agre with response by Brad Cox and ensuing discussion . The April 10 issue of Business Week includes a very interesting interview with Microsoft chairman Bill Gates. How Software Companies Die The environment that nutures creative programmers kills management and marketing types - and vice versa.
Programming is the Great Game.
It consumes you, body and soul. When you're caught up in it, nothing else matters. When you emerge into daylight, you might well discover that you're a hundred pounds overweight, your underwear is older than the average first grader, and judging from the number of pizza boxes lying around, it must be spring already. But you don't care, because your program runs, and the code is fast and clever and tight. You're aware that some people think you're a nerd.