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Coders at Work
Interesting book containing interviews with famous programmers, by Peter Seibel, author of Practical Common Lisp.Wed Jun 24 20:09:00 2009 - permalink -- http://www.codersatwork.com/
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One Div Zero: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages
:-)Mon May 11 10:55:40 2009 - permalink -- http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-mostly-wrong.html
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Dr. Alan Kay on the Meaning of "Object-Oriented Programming"
Alan Kay, inventor of the term "Object-Oriented Programming" explains his views.Tue Sep 30 13:58:17 2008 - permalink -- http://www.purl.org/stefan_ram/pub/doc_kay_oop_en
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HAKMEM -- CONTENTS -- DRAFT, NOT YET PROOFED
HTML version of the legendary Massachusetts Institute of Technology A. I. Laboratory Artificial Intelligence Memo No. 239 February 29, 1972 aka HAKMEMSat Feb 2 16:15:50 2008 - permalink -- http://home.pipeline.com/~hbaker1/hakmem/hakmem.html
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Collection of Software Bugs
List of software bugs with serious consequences. From the book "Numerische Mathematik" by Martin Hermann, Oldenbourg, 2006.Fri Jan 4 21:41:49 2008 - permalink -- http://www5.in.tum.de/~huckle/bugse.html
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Dan Weinrebs Weblog
Interesting blog about the history of Lisp machines, the MIT AI lab and more.Mon Nov 19 16:28:49 2007 - permalink -- http://dlweinreb.wordpress.com/
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Slashdot | MIT Releases the Source of MULTICS, Father of UNIX
Just what it says, from a post by Kent Pitman on comp.lang.lisp.Mon Nov 19 16:01:52 2007 - permalink -- http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/13/1710224
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Amazon.com: Core Memory: A Visual Survey of Vintage Computers: Books: John Alderman,Dag Spicer,Mark Richards
Book about vintage computers.Wed Oct 24 17:31:02 2007 - permalink -- http://www.amazon.com/Core-Memory-Visual-Vintage-Computers/dp/0811854426/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/002-6107134-4632847?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1180826552&sr=8-1
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History of LISP Software Preservation Group
The goal of this project is to locate source code, design documents, and other materials concerning the original LISP I/1.5 system, and as many of its follow-ons as possible.Tue Oct 9 15:43:32 2007 - permalink -- http://www.softwarepreservation.org/projects/LISP/
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Online Etymology Dictionary
This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.Wed Sep 5 14:38:02 2007 - permalink -- http://www.etymonline.com/index.php
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The Miracle of Theta Functions
Nice article by the Borwein brothers about efficient algorithms for the computation of pi, includingFri Jun 1 19:05:06 2007 - permalink -- http://www.cecm.sfu.ca/organics/papers/borwein/paper/html/node12.html#SECTION00050000000000000000
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Low End Mac: How Much Mac Do You Need?
Information about older Macintosh computers.Tue Feb 6 22:48:51 2007 - permalink -- http://lowendmac.com/
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World Wide Words
International english from a british perspective.Thu Jan 25 12:30:45 2007 - permalink -- http://www.worldwidewords.org/index.htm
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The Phrontistery: Obscure Words and Vocabulary Resources
A fun site collecting obscure (english) words.Fri Jan 5 16:20:13 2007 - permalink -- http://phrontistery.info/index.html
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Mac OS X Internals: The Book
A book that could be interesting.Tue Aug 8 18:07:22 2006 - permalink -- http://osxbook.com/
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Unixica.com -- A tribute to the Unix and its people
A large collection about Unix history, people, etc.Wed Aug 2 16:23:10 2006 - permalink -- http://www.unixica.com/html/links.html
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Some notes on the "Who wrote Linux" Kerfuffle
Interesting information on the history of Unix and some Unix-like systems from Andy Tanenbaum, the creator of MINIX. Also includes the sad FUD campaign by a certain Mr. Brown.Tue Aug 1 21:37:23 2006 - permalink -
The UNIX group (Dept. 1127) at Bell Labs is also mentioned.- http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/brown/
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The UNIX oral history project
Early Unix history, with comments by Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, Brian Kernighan, Doug McIlroy and A.G. "Sandy" FraserThu Jun 29 14:59:21 2006 - permalink -
On 2022-08-05, this page no longer exists at the URL http://www.princeton.edu/~mike/expotape.htm, but on https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm- https://www.princeton.edu/~hos/Mahoney/expotape.htm