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A city is not a tree

Feb 22, 2019

While reading Christopher Alexander’s amazing essay “A City is Not a Tree” I was reminded of a page in one of my old notebooks. On that page I had taken some notes on some amazing computer science (and related) dissertations that might form the basis for a personal program design gestalt.1 In this post I’ll […]

Mentioned by RPG

Aug 17, 2012 one comment

Ranier Joswig has linked a number of papers suggested by or written by Richard P. Gabriel in the Lisp Sub-Reddit. Although I’ve read a few of those linked, I thought placing the recommendations here would be interesting to my readers, and serve as a personal reminder to study them for research purposes. Howard I. Cannon, […]

10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice)

Sep 8, 2011 some comments

Let me preface this post by saying that no programmer should feel compelled to read any of these papers. I list them because I think that they provide a breadth of information that is generally useful and interesting from a computer science perspective. What you do with that information is your prerogative, including ignoring it […]

Old Sun Technical Reports

Mar 10, 2011

Start here Have fun. :f

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