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Haskell - Wikibooks, collection of open-content textbooks edit / delete

Quite a good Haskell tutorial.

to functional haskell programming research ... on 06 September 2006

The 6502 Instruction Set Decoded edit / delete

Complete with undocumented instructions and other oddities.

to 6502 assembler programming ... on 15 August 2006

6502 mnemonics edit / delete

to 6502 assembler programming ... on 15 August 2006

Designing an Authentication System: a Dialogue in Four Scenes edit / delete

Explaining Kerberos as a dialogue. A nice bit of writing.

to amusements kerberos programming security writing ... on 13 August 2006

The C10K problem edit / delete

Web server scalability writeup from a few years. It's still interesting reading.

to concurrency networking programming research scalability web ... on 13 August 2006

A+: a programming language for actual programmers edit / delete

The deeply scary A+ language (from MSDW's internal software department). It's essentially a modern APL, complete with custom character set. I'm sure it's very expressive if you're familiar with it, but it has the most alien-looking syntax I've seen...

to apl design language programming vector ... on 13 August 2006

Martin Richards edit / delete

Some retrocomputing stuff, but most interestingly MCPL, a BCPL-inspired untyped low-level language which has pattern matching. It's really cool in an odd sort of way.

to design language programming retrocomputing ... on 13 August 2006

Nickle edit / delete

Keith Packard's lightweight programming language. (I'm not sure if anything actually uses it, but it's a pretty good design.)

to languages programming ... on 13 August 2006

Recursive Make Considered Harmful edit / delete

Classic paper. Worth reading.

to make programming ... on 13 August 2006

X Selections, X Cut Buffers, and Emacs Kill Rings edit / delete

The rules that people always complain about, but do actually make sense.

to programming x ... on 13 August 2006