People of ACM – Russ Cox
68 points by signa11 5 days ago | 9 comments
pbohun 2 hours ago
Russ also has a great blog, with the most recent entry on fast floating-point printing and parsing. I believe these performance improvements have landed in the latest version of Go.
https://research.swtch.com/fp
replyshaftoe444 2 days ago
> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.
replyCthulhu_ 3 hours ago
The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
replytmoertel 50 minutes ago
It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book
replyAnd, yep, it's worth a read.
ignoramous 2 hours ago
Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
replydchest 4 hours ago
I recently learned that Russ also wrote software for The On-Line Encyclopedia of Integer Sequences (https://oeis.org) and is the president of the OEIS Foundation.
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