Software

"Your plan reeks of infeasibility." — Wally

History:

• Vannevar Bush, As We May Think, in The Atlantic, July 1945.
• Edsger W. Dijkstra, GOTO Statement Considered Harmful, in Comms. of the ACM, vol. 11, no. 3, March 1968.
• Dennis M. Ritchie and Ken Thompson, The UNIX Time-Sharing System, in Comms. of the ACM, vol. 17, no. 7, July 1974.
• Tim Berners-Lee, Information Management: A Proposal, CERN, March 1989,

Essential reading:

• The C Programming Language by Brian W. Kernighan and Dennis M. Ritchie
• The Mythical Man-Month by Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
• Peopleware by Tom DeMarco and Timothy Lister
• Facts and Fallacies of Software Engineering by Robert Glass
• The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas
• Expert C Programming by Peter van der Linden
• Ship it! by Jared Richardson and William Gwaltney
• Joel on Software by Joel Spolsky

In the real world:

• The Project Triangle
• Tradable Quality Hypothesis
• Technical Debt
• If They Come, How Will They Build It?

Historical resources:

• Palm Pilot Desktop Software File Structures
• Palm Date Book Parser