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Perlisisms - "Epigrams in Programming" by Alan J. Perlis

http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html

EPIGRAMS IN PROGRAMMING 1. One man's constant is another man's variable. 2. Functions delay binding; data structures induce binding. Moral: Structure data late in the programming

madhadron - The seven programming ur-languages

https://madhadron.com/programming/seven_ur_languages.html

madhadron Home Programming Science « Back to Programming | Home The seven programming ur-languages I regularly hear people asking which programming language to learn, and then ree

Stroustrup: FAQ

https://www.stroustrup.com/bs_faq.html

| TC++PL | Tour++ | Programming | D&E | bio | interviews | videos | quotes | applications | guidelines | compilers Bjarne Stroustrup 's FAQ Modified May 26, 2024. These are questi

Jones on reciprocal multiplication

http://homepage.cs.uiowa.edu/~jones/bcd/divide.html

using it because most programming languages on 32-bit machines provide no way to access the high 32 bits of the 64-bit product of two 32-bit unsigned numbers. n scaled reciprocal
A tutorial on using reciprocal multiplication to do division

The Hundred-Year Language

https://paulgraham.com/hundred.html

picture. What kind of programming language will they use to write the software controlling those flying cars? This is worth thinking about not so much because we'll actually get t

Merrett's Databases at McGill

https://www.cs.mcgill.ca/~tim/

1960's In the 1960's, programming languages such as FORTRAN, ALGOL, COBOL and PL/I had introduced ways of organizing data in primary memory (RAM) into familiar data structures: nu

Organization Sketch of IBM Stretch -- Mark Smotherman

https://people.computing.clemson.edu/~mark/stretch.html

IBM in 1950 to work on programming the SSEC (Selective Sequence Electronic Calculator). His SSEC experience led to work on translators and interpreters, including the widely used

The FoxPro History - Interview with Wayne Ratliff

http://www.foxprohistory.org/interview_wayne_ratliff.htm

and insights about programming. Ratliff is a tall westerner who has an air of independence and a comfortable manner. After more than fifteen years in the computer industry, he sti

Wang 3300 Computer

http://wang3300.org/

as the primary means of programming. At that point Dartmouth BASIC was already six years old and had a reputation for ease of use. The first version of BASIC released for the 3300

C++ Applications

https://www.stroustrup.com/applications.html

| TC++PL | Tour++ | Programming | D&E | bio | interviews | videos | quotes | applications | guidelines | compilers C++ Applications Modified May 13, 2021 Here is a list of systems

Software Engineering Humor

http://www.cs.uni.edu/~mccormic/humor.html

operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for over 30 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development F

Stories

https://www.ed-thelen.org/comp-hist/stories.html

Hexter Pioneer Business Programming Gerry Jean Links to other collections - of tall tales ;-)) CalTech?s IBM 1800 and "Lunatic" mass spectrometer in 1968 by Bob Haas - sent Novemb


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