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        Date: 2024-04-22 08:46:25+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: The language of computer programmers

Coderspeak: The language of computer programmers
Guilherme Orlandini Heurich
UCL Press, 2024

The book is available as an open access download
at <https://www.uclpress.co.uk/products/230881>

 From the Introduction:
> The world of programmers and programming is immense. There are around
> 24 million people working as software engineers, developers,
> programmers, coders or just ‘devs’ in the world today. How do you
> make sense of such a large and diverse population of people? As I’ve
> learned during the past few years of being in and among the people
> who inhabit the world of software, you have to cut the problem down
> to a manageable size. Reduce it to something that fits your brain, so
> you can describe it easily. You might not have the solution for that
> problem yet, but at least you know what it is. My way is the
> anthropological way. I’ve cut through the programming world with a
> conceptual knife that gives me a slice I can just about fit in my
> head: programmers who write code in Ruby. For almost two years I
> worked as part of a team of Ruby developers in a London company. I’ve
> learned from them and built things with them but, most of all, I’ve
> tried to listen to their stories. Through them and their connections,
> I was able to reach out to many other Ruby developers in the UK,
> Europe, the Americas and Japan. It is the combination of my
> experience as a Ruby dev and the individual trajectories of many
> other programmers that sits at the heart of this book.

Yours,
WM


--
Willard McCarty,
Professor emeritus, King's College London;
Editor, Interdisciplinary Science Reviews;  Humanist
www.mccarty.org.uk


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