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Seeking Computer Science Fokelore?

Posted by Cliff on from the stuff-you-might-want-to-bookmark dept.

Missing Bookmarks asks: "I accidentally deleted my bookmarks. I lost my 'Lore' folder, where I was collecting links to the classic folklore of the computer science subculture - things like Ken Thompson's Reflections on Trusting Trust, The Tanenbaum-Torvalds Debate, Dijkstra's Go To Statement Considered Harmful, and The Alice and Bob after-dinner speech. I don't need anything from The Jargon File (like The Story of Mel), because that stuff is obviously easy to find. I've listed all the things I could remember; please help me find the ones I've forgotten."

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  1. Original papers on lisp and information theory by TimoT · · Score: 5, Informative

    The original paper on Lisp by John McCarthy could be considered an important part of CS history: Recursive Functions of Symbolic Expressions and Their Computation by Machine (Part I)

    Claude Shannon's A Mathematical Theory of Communication is good to know as well.

    Richard Gabriels' Worse Is Better paper is also on the web, but I don't know if that qualifies. It's somewhat new to be folklore.

    I don't know if any of the original papers by Turing, Church and von Neumann have been put online so post some links if you find them.

  2. Danny Cohen on Endianness by senahj · · Score: 2, Informative


    IEN 137,
    ON HOLY WARS AND A PLEA FOR PEACE
    Danny Cohen 1 April 1980

    Top Google
    http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/chris/sigco mm/t1/co hen.endianness.material.txt

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    Wait a minute. Didn't I say that on the other side of the record? I'd better check ...
  3. MIT AI Labs HAKMEM by senahj · · Score: 2, Informative


    Before the Jargon File there was HAKMEM

    http://www.inwap.com/pdp10/hbaker/hakmem/hakmem. ht ml

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  4. Mark I documentation, inc. a manual by Turing by UncleFluffy · · Score: 3, Informative

    Here. oh yes, and Turing drank here, make a pilgrimage now.

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    What would Lemmy do?

  5. some arguable classics by clem.dickey · · Score: 3, Informative

    I keep a bunch of "classic" bookmarks around. Some are undisputed gems, others are, well, to my taste. Bytes being cheap here's a batch.