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Masterminds of Programming

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1. C++

Design Decisions Using the Language OOP and Concurrency Future Teaching

2. Python

The Pythonic Way The Good Programmer Multiple Pythons Expedients and Experience

3. APL

Paper and Pencil Elementary Principles Parallelism Legacy

4. Forth

The Forth Language and Language Design Hardware Application Design

5. BASIC

The Goals Behind BASIC Compiler Design Language and Programming Practice Language Design Work Goals

6. AWK

The Life of Algorithms Language Design Unix and Its Culture The Role of Documentation Computer Science Breeding Little Languages Designing a New Language Legacy Culture Transformative Technologies Bits That Change the Universe Theory and Practice Waiting for a Breakthrough Programming by Example

7. Lua

The Power of Scripting Experience Language Design

8. Haskell

A Functional Team Trajectory of Functional Programming The Haskell Language Spreading (Functional) Education Formalism and Evolution

9. ML

The Soundness of Theorems The Theory of Meaning Beyond Informatics

10. SQL

A Seminal Paper The Language Feedback and Evolution XQuery and XML

11. Objective-C

Engineering Objective-C Growing a Language Education and Training Project Management and Legacy Software Objective-C and Other Languages Components, Sand, and Bricks Quality As an Economic Phenomenon Education

12. Java

Power or Simplicity A Matter of Taste Concurrency Designing a Language Feedback Loop

13. C#

Language and Design Growing a Language C# The Future of Computer Science

14. UML

Learning and Teaching The Role of the People UML Knowledge Be Ready for Change Using UML Layers and Languages A Bit of Reusability Symmetric Relationships UML Language Design Training Developers Creativity, Refinement, and Patterns

15. Perl

The Language of Revolutions Language Community Evolution and Revolution

16. PostScript

Designed to Last Research and Education Interfaces to Longevity Standard Wishes

17. Eiffel

An Inspired Afternoon Reusability and Genericity Proofreading Languages Managing Growth and Evolution

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