Stories by Jtsummers

On the Design and Development of Program Families (1976) [pdf]

Nobody ever gets credit for fixing problems that never happened (2001) [pdf]

The Apple Vision Pro is spectacular and sad

An Incremental Approach to Compiler Construction (2006) [pdf]

The strengths of the academic enterprise (1994)

A full online version of Object-Oriented Software Construction, 2nd Ed. (1997)

FAQ Sheet on Feature Interaction (2004)

Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud (2019)

An Air Force sergeant spotted pulsars months before astronomers

How do we tell truths that might hurt? (1975)

How Did Software Get So Reliable Without Proof? (1996) [pdf]

Computation and State Machines (2008) [pdf]

Logic Programming is Underrated (2013)

Programming Pearls: A Literate Program (1986) [pdf]

Iterative and Incremental Development: A Brief History (2003) [pdf]

Cast Handbook: How to Learn More from Incidents and Accidents (2019) [pdf]

Nobody Ever Gets Credit for Fixing Problems That Never Happened (2001) [pdf]

The Humble Dialog Box (2002) [pdf]

Closures and Objects Are Equivalent (2013)

Solving puzzles with hypothesis

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