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MRS 051: Andy Hunt

Guests :

Andy Hunt

Hosts :

Charles Max Wood

Published : Jul 04, 2018

Duration : 59 Minutes

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Panel: Charles Max Wood

Guest: Andy Hunt

This week on My Ruby Story, Charles talks to Andy Hunt. Andy has previously been on Ruby Rogues for Episode 277, and is known for his book The Pragmatic Programmer, his company The Pragmatic Bookshelf, and much more. He first got into programming because of his interest in electronic music and his first RadioShack project he created, which led him to finding a book on the future of integrated circuits. They talk about how he found Ruby, why he wrote Programming Ruby, what he is working on now, and more!

In particular, we dive pretty deep on:

Ruby Rogues Episode 277
His book The Pragmatic Programmer
His company The Pragmatic Bookshelf
How did you first get into programming?
Interest in electronic music
RadioShack project
Book on the future of integrated circuits
Fire in the Valley by Michael Swaine
Exposure to the programming as it was being born
How did you find Ruby?
Time as a consultant
Needed a flexible and fast language
Couldn’t use C++ or Java
Using Perl
Amazed by the Unix shell
Loved that he could write pages of code that would actually work
Lacked documentation in the beginning
Writing his Programming Ruby book
Been messing around with Elixir recently
Ruby is still his number one language
And much, much more!

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