The German philosopher's examination of the development, nature, and importance of language.

The remarkable story of the scientific revolution that made the new economy possible-software-told through the unsung heroes of programming and their achievements. In the 1950s, just before John Backus's team developed the Fortran language that revolutionized the first generation of programming, it took dozens of full-time programmers and operators to run and debug each of t...(展开全部)

In Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller remembers her African childhood with candor and sensitivity. Though it is a diary of an unruly life in an often inhospitable place, it is suffused with Fuller’s endearing ability to find laughter, even when there is little to celebrate. Fuller’s debut is unsentimental and unflinching but always captivating. In wry and so...(展开全部)

Go is rapidly becoming the preferred language for building web services. There are plenty of tutorials available that teach Go’s syntax to developers with experience in other programming languages. But tutorials aren’t enough. They don’t teach Go’s idioms, so developers end up recreating patterns that don’t make sense in a Go context. This practical guide provides the essential...(展开全部)

Go is rapidly becoming the preferred language for building web services. There are plenty of tutorials available that teach Go’s syntax to developers with experience in other programming languages. But tutorials aren’t enough. They don’t teach Go’s idioms, so developers end up recreating patterns that don’t make sense in a Go context. This practical guide provides the essential...(展开全部)