Jean-Honoré Fragonard's Inspiration from Nicholas Pioche's Webmuseum, Paris

Readings for Operating Systems ACSI 500

• At your Leisure (useful software design tips)
  • Go To Statement Considered Harmful by E. Djikstra, Communications of the ACM, Vol. 11, No. 3, March 1968, pp. 147-148.
  • Program Development by Stepwise Refinement by Niklaus Wirth, Communications of the ACM , Vol. 14, No. 4, April 1971, pp. 221-227.
  • Design by contract: building bug-free object-oriented software by Bertrand Meyer
• Week 1 -
  • Lisp: Good News Bad News How to Win Big , by Richard P. Gabriel, originally in AI Expert, 1991.
  • Beating The Averages , By Paul Graham
  • More Than a Gigabuck: Estimating GNU/Linux's Size David A. Wheeler (observe amount of code in the various languages used to implement Redhat Linux).
• Week 2 -
  • Exactly 1800 Words on Languages and Parsing by Terence Parr.
  • LL and LR Translator Need k by Terence Parr and Russel Quong.
• 1 Week after Midterm (Not on Midterm)
  • Scripting: Higher Level Programming for the 21st Century , by John K. Ousterhout in IEEE Computer magazine, March 1998.
  • J. Backus. Can programming be liberated from the von Neumann style? A functional style and its algebra of programs. Communications of the ACM, 21:280--294
• 2 Weeks after Midterm
  • Generative Programming and Active Libraries , By Krzysztof Czarnecki, Ulrich Eisenecker, Robert Glück, David Vandevoorde, Todd Veldhuizen
• General References (Not examination material):
  • As an introduction or review (for Parsing in General) The ANTLR project's The PCCTS 1.33 book has a good introduction to parsing in general (see the "Exactly 1800 Words on Languages and Parsing", pages 25-29).
  • As a reference (for Lisp) Franz Lisp links to (and may help support) the Universität Trier's nice Lisp Tutorial .
  • As a reference (for Scheme) An Introduction to Scheme and its Implementation

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