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What are your favorite programming-related academic papers?

• pgbovine 16y ago
  On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules D.L. Parnas Carnegie-Mellon University Communications of the ACM, Vol. 15, No. 12, December 1972 http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/parnas-criteria.html http://sunnyday.mit.edu/16.355/parnas-criteria.html
• kristsk 16y ago
  Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs John Backus IBM Research Laboratory, San Jose Communications of the ACM, Volume 21, Number 8, August 1978 http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf http://www.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf
• rabidgnat 16y ago
  Red-Black Trees in a Functional Setting Chris Okasaki http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/okasaki/jfp99.ps http://www.eecs.usma.edu/webs/people/okasaki/jfp99.ps It shows how to construct Red-Black trees in an extremely simple manner in Haskell. I tried this technique in C++ and I was finished within an hour!
• wendroid 16y ago
  Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (aka utah2000 or utah2k) By Rob Pike - August 05th 2000, 23:59 EST http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/ http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/utah2000/
• DenisM 16y ago
  "Optimistic replication" (PDF), Yasushi Saito and Marc Shapiro, ACM Computing Surveys, Mar 2005. http://www.ysaito.com/survey.pdf http://www.ysaito.com/survey.pdf Fantastic paper, a really good overview of all things sync and replication - vector clocks, matrix clocks, you name it.