Articles and Reports

1. J. McCarthy, Recursive functions of symbolic expressions and their computation by machine, Comm. ACM 3, 4 (1960) 184-195.
2. Benjamin Zorn, Comparing mark-and sweep and stop-and-copy garbage collection, ACM conference on LISP and functional programming, 1990.
3. Jeffrey Dean and Sanjay Ghemawat, MapReduce: Simplified Data Processing on Large Clusters, OSDI'04: Sixth Symposium on Operating System Design and Implementation, San Francisco, CA, December, 2004.

4. Rob Pike, Sean Dorward, Robert Griesemer, Sean Quinlan, Interpreting the Data: Parallel Analysis with Sawzall, Scientific Programming Journal Special Issue on Grids and Worldwide Computing Programming Models and Infrastructure 13:4, pp. 227-298.

5. The Java HotSpot Virtual Machine, Sun Microsystems.
6. Steve M. Blackburn, Richard Jones, K. S. McKinley, J. Eliot B. Moss, Beltway: Getting Around Garbage Collection Gridlock, ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,2002.

7. E. D. Berger, B. G. Zorn, and K. S. McKinley, Composing High-Performance Memory Allocators , ACM SIGPLAN Conference on Programming Language Design and Implementation,2001.

8. J. Backus, Can programming be liberated from the von Neuman style?, Comm. ACM 21, 8 (1978) 613-641. (large file)
9. R. Harper, Introduction to Standard ML, Report ECS-LFCS-86-14, Dept. Computer Science, Univ. Edinburgh, 1989. (Link is to updated web version.)
10. B. Kernighan, Why Pascal is Not My Favorite Programming Language, Bell Labs CSTR 100, July 1981.
11. A. Koenig, An anecdote about ML type inference, USENIX Symposium on Very High Level Languages,1994.
12. Westley Weimer and George C. Necula Finding and Preventing Run-Time Error Handling Mistakes. In Proceedings of the Conference on Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages and Applications, 2004.
13. N. Wirth, Program development by stepwise refinement, Communications of the ACM, 14, 4 (1971) 221--227.
14. D. Parnas, On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules, Communications of the ACM, 15, 12 (1972) 1053-1058.
15. Guy Steele, Growing a Language, Invited talk at OOPSLA 1998.

16. D. Ingalls, Design principles behind Smalltalk, BYTE Special Issue on Smalltalk, August 1981. (Scanned by Dwight Hughes.)
17. 15 Years Ago in BYTE: The Smalltalk Environment by Larry Tessler, BYTE, August 1996.
18. W.R. Cook, Interfaces and specifications for the Smalltalk-80 collection classes,.Proc ACM Conf. Object-Oriented Programming Systems, Languages, and Applications (OOPSLA '92). ACM SIGPLAN Notices ,Vol. 27, No. 10 (Oct. 1992), Pages 1-15.
19. Henry McGilton and James Gosling, The Java Language Environment: A White Paper, 1996. (The most relevent sections are Chapters 1-2 and 4-6).

20. Security readings:
    • Ken Thompson, Reflections on Trusting Trust , ACM Turing Award Lecture, 1984.
    • A REPORT ON THE INTERNET WORM , Bob Page, 1988.
    • Aleph One, Smashing the stack for fun and profit , Phrack 7, 49 (1996). (just read the first few pages)
    • The Williams antivirus web page<
    • Social aspects of the Love Bug virus Email clients and operating systems must better protect the end user, 2000.

Books

1. E. Gamma et al., Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software, Addison-Wesley, 1995.
2. B. Stroustrup, The Design and Evolution of C++, Addison-Wesley, 1994, 461 pages.
3. K. Arnold and J. Gosling, The Java Programming Language, Addison-Wesley, 1996.