Stories by Jtsummers

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)

Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change (1998) [pdf]

Leverage Points: Places to Intervene in a System (1999)

The Dogged Pursuit of Bug-Free C Programs: Frama-C Software Analysis Platform

Check the Fine Print for That Remote Job

A New Approach to Designing Work (2017)

EWD472: Guarded commands, nondeterminacy and formal derivation of programs -1975

Rethinking software testing: perspectives from the world of hardware (2019)

ICFP Contest 2021

Concurrency is not parallelism (2013)

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