- Computer Technology, Nonfiction, Business, Computer programming
Their story takes us through a maze of dead ends and exhilarating breakthroughs as they and their colleagues wrestle not only with the abstraction of code but with the unpredictability of human behavior, especially their own.
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Contemporary, classical in form, spare and earnest.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- sparerichly built
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
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About the book
- Author
- Scott Rosenberg
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Three Rivers Press, Crown Publishing Group, Crown
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781400082476
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First sentence
“It was winter 1975.”
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