People of ACM – Russ Cox

(acm.org)

60 points | by signa11 4 days ago

3 comments

  • shaftoe444 1 day ago

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

    • ignoramous 23 minutes ago

      Then a new term is warranted for what happens to programming when we add prompts & agents.

      • arccy 9 minutes ago

        don't we already have the words slop and vibecode

      • Cthulhu_ 1 hour ago

        The book Software Engineering at Google goes into this (all factors of programming at scale / over time), worth a read.

        • pstuart 2 hours ago

          An amazing distillation of the craft.

        • dchest 2 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.

          • pbohun 51 minutes 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