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VIII.2 March 2001
Page: 45
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Interviews: Fast consulting


Authors:
Susan Fowler, Victor Stanwick

How did the "book thing" start? What inspired you to write such detailed and useful books? SUSAN: The first book, the GUI Style Guide (Academic Press, ISBN 0122635906), was a thank-you to the programmers who taught me most of what I know about the software industry. They told me how things really worked. For example, when, in my first job, I would go to the programmers crying about losing three hours of work because of some weirdo system bug, they'd listen for awhile, and then say, "It's always better the second time you write it." (This is true, although…




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