Stories by Jtsummers

Design of a Separable Transition-Diagram Compiler (1963) [pdf]

Why Calculating is Better than Scheming (1987) [pdf]

Applying “Design by Contract” (1992) [pdf]

Message Eating Null (2000)

The Puzzle That Will Outlast the World

The Early History of Smalltalk (1993)

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

Your Feelings Are No Excuse

What's New in Ada 2022

A Critique of the Remote Procedure Call Paradigm (1988) [pdf]

Surprisingly Turing-Complete (2021)

Trigonometry and Complex Numbers (2011)

Permanent daylight saving time would change sunrise and sunset times

Bell Labs and CSP Threads

Just Asking Questions

The Freeloading Boyfriends That Just Won’t Let Go

Lehman's Laws of Software Evolution

Impossible Objects as Nonsense Sentences (1971) [pdf]

Condition Handling in the Lisp Language Family (2001)

Structured Programming with go to Statements (1974) [pdf]

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