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Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011) by kazinator on Thursday December 01, 2016 @08:37PM (#13085254)
The name Luca Cardelli, one of the authors of one of the recommended papers, rings a bell: Modula 3 guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modula-3

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Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011) by auggierose on Thursday December 01, 2016 @06:59PM (#13084783)
It's 11 papers.
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Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011) by notduncansmith on Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:35PM (#13084978)
If you read it, he explicitly mentions that the LISP paper doesn't count.
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Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011) by lapitopi on Thursday December 01, 2016 @09:59PM (#13085623)
There are only 2 hard problems in computer science:

- Cache invalidation

- Naming things

- Off by 1 errors

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Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011) by munificent on Thursday December 01, 2016 @08:54PM (#13085332)
Decimal baker's dozen.
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Re:Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read (2011) by smoothgrammer on Thursday December 01, 2016 @07:09PM (#13084849)
fencepost error
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