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Nice - this means the May 1988 issue of CACM is freely available. That's notable because the cover article is Cliff Stoll's "Stalking the Wily Hacker" [1], wit
by philiplu 4y ago
Nice - this means the May 1988 issue of CACM is freely available. That's notable because the cover article is Cliff Stoll's "Stalking the Wily Hacker" [1], with the material that later became his book "The Cuckoo's Egg". But I've still got the dead-tree version of that issue around somewhere in storage because of another article, by Andrew Appel and Guy Jacobson, "The World's Fastest Scrabble Algorithm" [2]. I coded that up back then, in Pascal IIRC, and had a blast doing so.
[1] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42412 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42412
[2] https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42420 https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/42411.42420