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The Ten Commandments for C Programmers from Henry Spencer (Unix/Plan 9 – 1987) (cat-v.org)
11 points by pjmlp 6 days ago | past | 1 comment
Encyclopedia of Things Considered Harmful (cat-v.org)
3 points by valyala 11 days ago | past | discuss
Node.js is one of the worst things to happen to the software industry" (2012) (cat-v.org)
1 point by downbad_ 3 months ago | past | 1 comment
Bumper-Sticker Computer Science (cat-v.org)
1 point by Spide_r 5 months ago | past
Parkinson's Law (1955) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
1 point by rrjjww 7 months ago | past
Acme: A User Interface for Programmers (1994) (cat-v.org)
2 points by birdculture 8 months ago | past
Acme: A User Interface for Programmers (1994) (cat-v.org)
3 points by todsacerdoti 8 months ago | past
Rails Is a Ghetto (2007) (cat-v.org)
6 points by yomismoaqui 10 months ago | past | 1 comment
UTF-8 history (2003) (cat-v.org)
101 points by mikecarlton 10 months ago | past | 36 comments
Kubrick on a Clockwork Orange (cat-v.org)
7 points by mordechai9000 on June 29, 2025 | past
Kubrick on a Clockwork Orange – An Interview with Michel Ciment (cat-v.org)
4 points by mordechai9000 on June 26, 2025 | past
What Problems to Solve (1966) (cat-v.org)
493 points by jxmorris12 on June 25, 2025 | past | 61 comments
Why Pascal is not my favorite programming language (1981) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
71 points by susam on April 13, 2025 | past | 87 comments
Why Pascal Is Not My Favourite Language (1981) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
5 points by todsacerdoti on April 13, 2025 | past | 1 comment
Process Sleep and Wakeup on a Shared-Memory Multiprocessor (cat-v.org)
2 points by lemonmint on Oct 20, 2024 | past
Systems Software Research is Irrelevant (2000) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
1 point by tosh on Sept 18, 2024 | past
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: The Unix Legacy [pdf] (cat-v.org)
3 points by yarapavan on June 21, 2024 | past
C Program Interview – Dennis Ritchie (cat-v.org)
4 points by udev4096 on April 18, 2024 | past
Systems Software Research Is Irrelevant (Rob Pike, 2000) (cat-v.org)
3 points by lproven on Feb 16, 2024 | past
werc – A sane web anti-framework (cat-v.org)
3 points by tosh on Feb 9, 2024 | past | 1 comment
Pitfalls of object oriented programming (2009) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
89 points by davikr on Dec 27, 2023 | past | 126 comments
Grap – Kernighan and Bentley's language for typesetting graphs (1984) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
66 points by smartmic on Dec 13, 2023 | past | 9 comments
A tutorial for the sam command language (1986) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
47 points by networked on Oct 20, 2023 | past | 11 comments
Bumper-Sticker Computer Science (More Programming Pearls) (cat-v.org)
2 points by cpeterso on Aug 27, 2023 | past
Security in Plan 9 (cat-v.org)
3 points by todsacerdoti on Aug 16, 2023 | past
The history of UTF-8 as told by Rob Pike (cat-v.org)
2 points by thunderbong on July 23, 2023 | past
The IL Protocol (cat-v.org)
1 point by g0xA52A2A on July 16, 2023 | past
Mk: A Successor to Make (1987) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
83 points by SllX on July 16, 2023 | past | 51 comments
The Text Editor Sam (cat-v.org)
77 points by bluedino on July 4, 2023 | past | 31 comments
Program design in the Unix environment, by Pike and Kernighan (1984) [pdf] (cat-v.org)
1 point by benhoyt on June 12, 2023 | past

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