Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by icey » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 7:18 PM UTC

Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)
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Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by rhizome » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 7:37 PM UTC

Is this title still referring to the object mentor essays that were posted a couple weeks ago?

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by jroll » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 7:42 PM UTC

"All papers are freely available online"

Why not have links to each one?

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by jroll » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 7:42 PM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #2

Is this title still referring to the object mentor essays that were posted a couple weeks ago?

No, this is inspired by that list, with an additional set of constraints.

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by fogus » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 7:51 PM UTC

jroll wrote: post #3

"All papers are freely available online" Why not have links to each one?

Sorry. My Markdown syntax was bad. There are now links to the articles marked by ↗.

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by jleader » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 7:52 PM UTC

rhizome wrote: post #2

Is this title still referring to the object mentor essays that were posted a couple weeks ago?

The post is a response to the original object mentor list of 10 papers; this post claims to be oriented more toward technical depth and less toward philosophy and design.

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by wgrover » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 8:17 PM UTC

Seeing Leslie Lamport's first paper (about braids, for a high school math journal) makes me want to put together a list of computer scientists' first papers. Now I've got two favorites:

Leslie Lamport, "Braid Theory": http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/um/people/lamport/pubs/b...

Don Knuth, "The Potrzebie System of Weights and Measures", Mad Magazine: http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/5/52/Potrzeb.jpg

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by jules » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 8:20 PM UTC

Other great papers:

Flapjax: A Programming Language for Ajax Applications:

http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Papers/Published/mg...

Embedded probabalistic programming:

http://okmij.org/ftp/kakuritu/dsl-paper.pdf

Memoization of Top-down Parsing:

http://arxiv.org/PS_cache/cmp-lg/pdf/9504/9504016v1.pdf

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by Tichy » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 8:35 PM UTC

fogus wrote: post #5

jroll wrote: post #3

"All papers are freely available online" Why not have links to each one?

Sorry. My Markdown syntax was bad. There are now links to the articles marked by ↗.

Can't find the link for "Organizing Programs Without Classes". The Oracle site says "click here to download", but there is nothing to click?

Re: Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

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Post by patrickyeon » Fri, Sep 09, 2011, 8:41 PM UTC

Tichy wrote: post #9

fogus wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sorry. My Markdown syntax was bad. There are now links to the articles marked by ↗.

Can't find the link for "Organizing Programs Without Classes". The Oracle site says "click here to download", but there is nothing to click?

I see a postscript version here: http://www.cs.ucsb.edu/~urs/oocsb/self/papers/organizing-pro...