Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011)

[tosh]

http://blog.fogus.me/2011/09/08/10-technical-papers-every-programmer-should-read-at-least-twice/

[kazinator]

The name Luca Cardelli, one of the authors of one of the recommended papers, rings a bell: Modula 3 guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

[auggierose]

It's 11 papers.

[notduncansmith → auggierose]

If you read it, he explicitly mentions that the LISP paper doesn't count.

[lapitopi → auggierose]

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

- Cache invalidation

- Naming things

- Off by 1 errors

[munificent → auggierose]

Decimal baker's dozen.

[smoothgrammer → auggierose]

fencepost error