My Favorite Documents
These are documents that I have found inspirational, interesting
enough, or useful enough that I have saved copies of them locally.
- On the Criteria
To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules
- This is one of the best papers ever written on how to modularize anything.
The ACM put it online once and I didn't trust them to leave it there
- Lisp,
Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big
- Though I'm not really a lisp fan, this is a fascinating commentary
on why some software systems win and others lose
- Quality by James Bach
- An interesting if somewhat unconventional viewpoint on software
quality and testing.
- HTML 3.2 Spec
- This is just so useful I wanted it available all the time.
- HTML 4.0 Spec
- This too is just so useful I wanted it available all the time.
- Perl man pages
- We can't seem to get /usr/dist to install this stuff, so I put my
own copy here. Kind of gross, huh?
- English Language Usage FAQ
- Another thing I just wanted available locally. The
online version might (but probably won't) be later
- Documents by Mel Conway
- Contains the original paper with Conway's Law and other more recent
thoughts from this pioneer
Not all documents are important enough to be worth a quick reference, but
I still hate to throw away useful stuff. I put the rest of them in a
sub-directory for preservation's sake.
External Documents
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