People of ACM – Russ Cox

67 points by signa11 5 days ago

I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.

pbohun - an hour 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

shaftoe444 - a day ago

> Software engineering is what happens to programming when you add time and other people.

Cthulhu_ - 2 hours ago

The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.
- tmoertel - 21 minutes ago
  
  It's available online for free: https://abseil.io/resources/swe-book
  And, yep, it's worth a read.
ignoramous - an hour ago

Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.
- arccy - 36 minutes ago
  
  don't we already have the words slop and vibecode
pstuart - 3 hours ago

An amazing distillation of the craft.

dchest - 3 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.