Dustin (Jan 04 2025 at 10:16): Dustin (Jan 04 2025 at 10:16):I think a paper counts right? Out of the Tar Pit is a paper I read like once a year and find myself nodding along to profusely for the entire paper. But I always end up afterwards going 'and now what? How do I apply this?'
Matthew Sanabria (Jan 04 2025 at 22:22):Books are made of paper so it counts in my book. That's only 66 pages I'll have to read it sometime. Thanks for sharing!
Dustin (Jan 11 2025 at 20:37):I followed the first reference around the coining of "software crisis" Which brought me to http://homepages.cs.ncl.ac.uk/brian.randell/NATO/nato1968.PDF which is an awesome read. I especially love the "we believe there are over 10,000 computers being used in Europe." :smile:
But someone mentioned Christopher Alexander, who I had no idea had published works as early as the 50s. (Found out about him from one of the episodes with Ryan Singer, I think on Changelog)
https://www.gregbryant.com/gatemaker/1966alexanderHumanContact.pdf was a fascinating but not techy read as well. So now I'm on a rabbit hole of Christopher Alexander stuff, again.
Dustin (Jan 11 2025 at 20:44):And I guess closer to the original paper, I'm currently reading this paper about software patterns from J Coplien in 1996 https://csis.pace.edu/~grossman/dcs/SoftwarePatterns_Coplien.pdf
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