Programmers at Work Published in Korea!

Excited to announce that a Korean Language edition of my book Programmers at Work was published this October 2025 in Korea by Insight Press in print and ebook form. My book continues to be read by programmers around the world, not only because it features in-depth conversations from some of the greatest tech luminaries to work in the field of programming. It also includes valuable insights for software engineers working in the fields of robotics and micro controllers where memory constraints, similar to those faced during the PC revolution, challenge programmers to squeeze a lot of functionality within tight constraints. The algorithms, code samples, and sketches of how they structured their programs included in the book offer a treasure trove of insights useful today. Get inspired!

Here is a link to the book for sale in Korea!

https://www.aladin.co.kr/shop/wproduct.aspx?ItemId=374595732

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Keep in touch folks. I have more exciting developments to be announced in the near future. Thanks again for your support. Susan Lammers

Programmers at Work Book Available

Received some inquiries from folks about buying the book Programmers at Work. So glad programmers of my generation want to pass along this book to their daughters, sons, and students coming up the ranks now. In the process of downsizing and packing up, I found a few boxes of Programmers at Work that I’d like to make available for sale. I can ship it to you. If you want, I can autograph the copy. Some of them might be first editions and some are hardback. You can contact me at my email address. susan_lammers@msn.com to inquire and I will do my best to answer. I’m not Amazon though!

Cheers everyone. Happy New Year! Let’s make 2022 great!

Susan Lammers

Bill Gates 1986-2008

Today I’ve posted the Bill Gates interview under the PAW–1986 interviews column at the right.

Let’s just say a little water has gone under the bridge since my interview in 1986. I’m sure many of you will enjoy reading this interview and noting all the quaint antiquities…like BASIC…the still amazing way code had to be squeezed into tiny amounts of memory, and also the predictions or lack thereof…it’s a revelation about how hard and yet easy it is to see the future…Gates could see that we were entering the “information” age and wanted to tackle it for the PC in a big way, via putting a multimedia multi-volume encyclopedia on CD ROM, which at the time was like imagining how to shovel the universe into a shoebox (I know because that’s the job I did for Microsoft at the time.) But today we look back on it as quaint with the way we’ve brought the universe to our fingertips via the internet. Little did we know at the time there was no need to shovel it into the pc shoebox. Instead we needed to imagine how we could shoot it and a dynamic web of other information around the planet into your offices on wires.

So enjoy this old and precious conversation with Bill because I sure did. He’s an amazing person to spend time with and I feel privileged to have worked with him back in those early days.