Stories by Jtsummers

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]

Metaobject protocols: Why we want them and what else they can do (1993) [pdf]

Go to Statement Considered Harmful: A Retrospective

Why there is no Hitchhiker’s Guide to Mathematics for Programmers (2013)

The Computer Scientist as Toolsmith II (1996) [pdf]

Computer Science: A Discipline Misnamed

Design Principles Behind Smalltalk (1981)

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