Fogus Essays

fogus-essays.md

Links for essays ref'd in http://blog.fogus.me/2009/03/11/seven-books/

• On the Criteria to Be Used in Decomposing Systems Into Modules – David Parnas
• A Note On Distributed Computing – Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall
• The Next 700 Programming Languages – P. J. Landin
• Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus
• Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson
• Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big – Richard Gabriel
• An Experimental Evaluation of the Assumption of Independence in Multiversion Programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson
• Arguments and Results – James Noble
• A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking – Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham
• Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self – David Ungar, Randall B. Smith
• Equal Rights for Functional Objects or, The More Things Change, The More They Are the Same – Henry G. Baker
• The Universal Design Pattern – Steve Yegge
• A Universal Modular Actor Formalism for Artificial Intelligence – Carl Hewitt, Peter Bishop, Richard Steige
• The Humble Programmer – Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Notes on Programming in C – Robert Pike
• Go To Statement Considered Harmful – Edsger W. Dijkstra
• Callbacks in C++ Using Template Functors – Rich Hickey
• What Every Computer Scientist Should Know About Floating-Point Arithmetic – David Goldberg
• Duff’s Device – Tom Duff
• Insert your own paper here

I do not recommend the MATREX paper... instead, add one of your own in that slot. :-)

@fogus: I'll see what I can dig up. Once I started googling and seeing MATREX over and over it occurred to me I actually did some work with MATREX and HLA and all that stuff in a previous life. Ah, memories. :)

@iperdomo Nice. I just tested that sunnday link. Works for me.