10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) – ObjectMentor Blog
Feb 27, 2012
I’m going to give this list a go:
- On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules – David Parnas
- A Note On Distributed Computing – Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall
- The Next 700 Programming Languages – P. J. Landin
- Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus
- Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson
- Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big – Richard Gabriel
- An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson
- Arguments and Results – James Noble
- A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking – Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham
- Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self – David Ungar, Randall B. Smith
The article has a synopsis for each one of the papers.
Link: 10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)