"Scripting: Higher- Level Programming for the 21st Century" by J. Ousterhout was certainly very influencial (cf. Python, Ruby, etc.) https://web.stanford.edu/~

"Scripting: Higher- Level Programming for the 21st Century" by J. Ousterhout was certainly very influencial (cf. Python, Ruby, etc.) https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pdf https://web.stanford.edu/~ouster/cgi-bin/papers/scripting.pd... Not sure the paper in itself aged so well. Also, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications_in_computer_science#Software_engineering https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_important_publications...