Programmer’s Diary

At the moment I have two major projects on the go, but so far this week I’ve only written seven lines of code! Despite this I’ve managed to either read or skim through a variety of papers / articles about programming (listed below).

It’s got to stage where I need to tell myself the same thing most recreational programmers need to be told from time to time:

Stop reading about programming and get some actual programming done.

Here are the papers I’ve read, all unrelated to either of the projects I’m working on!

• On µ-Kernel Construction, Jochen Liedtke, 1995. On the design and implementation of micro kernels.
• The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System, P Brinch Hansen, 1970. A early paper describing a micro kernel.
• Updating the Forth Virtual Machine, Stephen Pelc, 2008. Explores some changes to Forth, notably address registers.
• Bubble Sort: An Archaeological Algorithmic Analysis, Owen Astrachan, 2003. Investigates the history of Bubble Sort.
• Analysis of Sorting Algorithms by Kolmogorov Complexity (A Survey), Paul Vitányi, 2003. In depth.
• A Fast Easy Sort, Stephen Lacey and Richard Box, 1991. Describes Comb Sort (also known as Dobosiewicz Sort).

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