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Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011)

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The name Luca Cardelli, one of the authors of one of the recommended papers, rings a bell: Modula 3 guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

It's 11 papers.

fencepost error

If you read it, he explicitly mentions that the LISP paper doesn't count.

Decimal baker's dozen.

There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

- Cache invalidation

- Naming things

- Off by 1 errors

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