Stories by cactus-tree

Practical guidelines for the readability of IT-architecture diagrams (2002)[pdf]

Interviews with Donald Knuth and Niklaus Wirth from 1985

Programming Language choices: Pascal, LOGO, Forth, Prolog, C (1986) [video]

GRASE: Graphical syntax-directed editor for structured programming (1984) [PDF]

Flowcharting by stepwise refinement (1978) [pdf]

Complexity of object-oriented programming (book chapter one, 2022)

Smalltalk: Object Orientation is not about objects, it's about messaging [video]

Matthew Carter and typefaces: Bell Centennial, Verdana, Georgia (2014) [video]

Seven deadly sins of introductory programming language design (1996) [pdf]

A quick primer on human-factors evidence in programming language design

Modular programming: Most think they do it but hardly anyone does [video]

C. Hoare: Hints on programming language design (1973) [pdf]

Contextualized programming language documentation (2022) [pdf]

Ada and C: differences as the language for system programming (1993) [pdf]

Starting design work in a spreadsheet

Four principles of object oriented programming [video]

Optical size, the hidden superpower of variable fonts (2021)

Beyond instructions: a taxonomy of information types in how-to videos [pdf]

Why is it difficult for developers to learn another programming language? (2020)

How to use repetition (2017)

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