The Best Software Writing I is a collection of essays and articles on Software, selected, compiled and introduced by Joel Spolsky of Joel on Software fame. Most of articles in this collection refelect the contrarian style of Joel's own writings -- a story telling approach, mixing of humor, preference to simplicity and sloppiness (over complexity and rigor), disregard for the established, and acknowledgement of the diversity (in programing talent).
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