Great Read! I have been mulling over the idea of creating a curated list of interesting Programming Stories. Here are some of those which I can remember from top of my head:
There's also the stories of Knuth inventing and writing TeX and Metafont because he isn't happy with the way his books are typeset and of RMS and the Xerox 9700, but I don't know whether these have been written well yet.
The Royal McBee LPG-30 was the computer that Edward Lorenz was using to solve his simplified atmospheric model when he noticed a difference between different runs of the program depending on the rounding error when typing in parameters from the printout of a previous run.
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Great Read! I have been mulling over the idea of creating a curated list of interesting Programming Stories. Here are some of those which I can remember from top of my head:
* 500 Mile Email [http://www.ibiblio.org/harris/500milemail.html]
* Infinitely Profitable Program [http://peetm.com/blog/?p=55]
* The PGPi Scanning Project [http://www.pgpi.org/pgpi/project/scanning/]
* DirectX vs OpenGL [http://programmers.stackexchange.com/a/88055/75581]
Think anyone can contribute?
You definitely want the graphing calculator story [http://www.pacifict.com/Story/], and likely also want to look at folklore.org, for example the -2000 lines story [http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?project=Macintosh&story...]
There's also the stories of Knuth inventing and writing TeX and Metafont because he isn't happy with the way his books are typeset and of RMS and the Xerox 9700, but I don't know whether these have been written well yet.
I've always liked The Story of Mel: http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/mel.html
The Royal McBee LPG-30 was the computer that Edward Lorenz was using to solve his simplified atmospheric model when he noticed a difference between different runs of the program depending on the rounding error when typing in parameters from the printout of a previous run.
I'm unsure if this would qualify, but here's the story behind favicon.ico: https://ruthlessray.wordpress.com/2013/09/02/inventing-favic...