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How to be a programmer ...

From: Kedar Mhaswade <Kedar.Mhaswade_at_Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2009 09:19:37 -0700

Ran into Robert Read's very readable personal account of
what the art of the craft is ...

http://samizdat.mines.edu/howto/HowToBeAProgrammer.html#ftn.id2853366

PS - Read at leisure (I know it does not exist, but still ...) and
treat it more like a reference.