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Written by Jack Rusher on 2025-01-23 at 20:40

1 and 3 from the bonus list are more important than 6 and 7 from the main list…

https://terriblesoftware.org/2025/01/22/the-7-most-influential-papers-in-computer-science-history/

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Written by Andres Moreno on 2025-01-23 at 21:22

@jack

You're bang on with this one!

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Written by Laauurraaa on 2025-01-23 at 22:42

@jack I'm starting to understand why some of my friends think I'm a nerd, when I read all of these multiple times prior to reading the article 😅

I feel like something important is missing, like something in HCI?

Dynabook? Vannevar Bush's Memex? Ivan Sutherland? Ted Nelson?

Also, Church? Lambda calculus? It's basically a better Turing Machine

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Written by Jack Rusher on 2025-01-24 at 08:07

@Laauurraaa O yeah, my list would contain a bunch more papers, but just working with what they presented…

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Written by Laauurraaa on 2025-01-24 at 20:06

@jack Which ones if I may ask? I think Rich Hickey definitely deserves a mention at the very least, David Nolen.

Alan Kay is more than a necessity.

"You and your research" and/or the "The unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" by Hamming?

hmmmmm

Maybe this is an odd one, but "A new kind of science" by Stephen Wolfram changed my life. It's an awful book by an awful man, but it's so good.

Mandelbrot?

Lindenmayer?

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Written by Jack Rusher on 2025-01-25 at 08:25

@Laauurraaa I have a TODO to build a filterable reading list on my web site. I’ll post a link here when that exists :)

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Written by J3RN :emacs: :haskell: on 2025-01-24 at 20:37

@jack No Silver Bullet is a great paper in that (IMO) it challenges you to disprove it. It doesn't prove that software developers can't be an order of magnitude more productive, it's just, like, his opinion, man.

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