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Screenshot of cs.unc.edu: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(cs.unc.edu)

942 points by vismit2000 7 months ago | 437 comments

A university course page listing Rob Pike's five rules of programming on measurement, simple algorithms, and data structures, with notes relating them to Hoare, Thompson, and Brooks.

rob-pike programming-principles optimization data-structures

Screenshot of cs.unc.edu: No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf]

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf](cs.unc.edu)

103 points by benterix 1 year ago | 25 comments

Screenshot pending…

Patriot Missile Floating Point Software Problem Led to Deaths of 28 Americans (cs.unc.edu)

76 points by belltaco 2 years ago | 46 comments

cs.unc.edu on Hacker News

Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989)(cs.unc.edu)

No Silver Bullet: Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1986) [pdf](cs.unc.edu)

Patriot Missile Floating Point Software Problem Led to Deaths of 28 Americans(cs.unc.edu)

Patriot Missile Floating Point Software Problem Led to Deaths of 28 Americans (cs.unc.edu)