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Liskov's Reading List for Computer Scientists

by yuningalexliu on 10/29/16, 5:19 AM with 9 comments

• by raister on 10/29/16, 9:26 AM

  That is a good list for Computer Science years 1950-1975, however, I would rather see important things that is relevant 1975-2015.

• by mathieubordere on 10/29/16, 2:35 PM

  Working link for: Wirth, N. (1971). Program development by stepwise refinement - https://www.inf.ethz.ch/personal/wirth/Articles/StepwiseRefi...

• by gumby on 10/30/16, 5:38 PM

  Computer Science is notorious for ignoring history. Back in the 80s I would go down to the library and read the literature. When I ran across something exciting I'd go back to my office and use it for some problem I was working on.

  My colleagues were always astonished at my "brilliance". It didn't matter that I referenced the paper in the code and even brandished the hardcopy (thats what we had in those days) -- it was inconceivable that I might have found something in the literature and made more sense that they were working with a "genius".

  When I moved into Pharma 20 years later it was the opposite: we would find interesting and relevant results in papers more than 20 years old.

• by brudgers on 10/29/16, 2:07 PM

  The Morning Paper recently looked at the list: https://blog.acolyer.org/?s=liskov