Lately I've been into what I would call "the classics", Knuth, Peter Norvig, Minsky, Dijkstra... I realised most of what nowadays is called modern software/tech

Lately I've been into what I would call "the classics", Knuth, Peter Norvig, Minsky, Dijkstra... I realised most of what nowadays is called modern software/techniques basically consist in re-framing old essays from them. Some of my references: the famous Norvig view on design patterns [1] and also his view of clean code [2]. Knuth on programming [3] also really enlighting. 1. https://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf https://norvig.com/design-patterns/design-patterns.pdf 2. https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf https://www.cs.umd.edu/~nau/cmsc421/norvig-lisp-style.pdf 3. http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html