I just read this snippet in Gerald L. Wood’s fascinating Guinness Book of Animal Facts and Feats, 3rd edition [amazon.com, amazon.co.uk]:
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Doctor Who, Series 5
Greatest Hits
In reverse chronological order:
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- Programming Pearls
- Steve Jobs “never had any designs. He has not designed a single project”
- Another challenge: can you write a correct selection sort
- Still hatin’ on git: now with added Actual Reasons!
- The long-overdue serious attempt at The Silmarillion, part 1: what it isn’t and what it is
- Writing correct code, part 1: invariants
- Only 10% of programmers can write a binary search
- The long-overdue serious attempt at Lisp, part 2: is Lisp just too hard?
- The C Programming Language
- The eleventh Doctor: first impressions
- A brief, yet helpful, lesson on elementary resource-locking strategy
- The hacker, the architect and the superhero
- Programming the Commodore 64
- Where Dijkstra went wrong
- The Elements of Programming Style
- Whatever happened to programming?, redux
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