Historical Reasons

How Java’s Floating-Point Hurts Everyone Everywhere (1998)

Modal editing is a weird historical contingency we have through sheer happenstance

The roots of software development in the textile industry (2024)

How we organized the Rust Clippy feature freeze

How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?

Oral History of Ken Thompson [video]

Reminiscing about Turbo Pascal

Dijkstra on the foolishness of natural language programming (1978)

Ghosts of Unix Past: a historical search for design patterns (2010)