i’m buying the book simply because this foreword strikes so close to home
Joel on Software - Mike Gunderloy’s Coder to Developer: “Now I really knew everything. I knew more than everything, because I had learned a bunch of computer-scientific junk about linear algebra and NP completeness and frigging lambda calculus which was obviously useless, so I thought they must have run out of useful things to teach us and were scraping the bottom of the barrel.” and i could quote the rest too which is less cynical but you’ll probably just read it and get the picture.