Interview with Andy Hunt, Coauthor of the Pragmatic Programmer

Spoke with him in the early days of his company about an order. Very chill guy and Pragmatic Programmer has had as much effect on me as I work day by day as any book.<p>I look at the book as a benchmark on how far along you are in the programming journey. I&#x27;m fond of saying young coders will agree with 50% of the book and reject the rest. But the more experience they get the more they agree with it.<p>I&#x27;ve re-read it a few times and still disagree with 2% of it so I guess that is good as it means I still have room to grow;&lt;).

Not too much interesting stuff in this interview apart of this:<p><pre><code> I hate languages that introduce accidental complexity such as JavaScript—what a nightmare of pitfalls for newbies and even seasoned developers.</code></pre>

Damn, almost all of his next projects involve elixir:<p>&quot;Writing Elixir and Phoenix code to manipulate MIDI in real time<p>Expand my Halloween project of multiple Raspberry Pi’s, Arduino, pneumatics, audio and effects to a full-blown Elixir&#x2F;Phoenix&#x2F;OTP demonstration.<p>Revise my book Pragmatic Thinking &amp; Learning<p>Maybe a top-secret project or two..&quot;

&gt; Programming is an inspirational activity best learned from reading books written by great authors.<p>Or by doing and reading others code.

why no mention of python? seems strange than any modern programmer to leave it out.

Well, that was disappointing.

Holy cow the font on this page is almost unreadable.