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					Fran Allen and the Social Relevance of Computer Science   Danwin.com
					
				
						
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If you haven’t read it yet, Peter Seibel’s Coders at Work (2009), is one of the best books about computer programming that doesn’t have actual code in it. It distills "nearly eighty hours of conversations with fifteen all-time great programmers and computer scientists," with equal parts given to fascinating technical minutiae (including the respondents’ best/worst bug hunting stories) and to learning how these coders came to think the way they do. So in a book full of interviews worth reading, it’s not quite accurate to say that Fran Allen stands out. It’s better to say that Allen is different