据说所有程序员都应该至少读上两遍的十篇论文（转）

 

很巧，刚才从Reddit上看到了题为“10 Papers Every Programmer Should Read (At Least Twice) ”的文章，打开链接一看，是我们《修改代码的艺术》一书的作者Michael Feathers写的。他的那本书被称为“近十年来最有影响的计算机图书”之一，可是在国内的关注并不太够，这是为什么呢？

言归正传，看看是哪10篇论文入了Feathers大师的法眼吧：

On the criteria to be used in decomposing systems into modules – David Parnas 
A Note On Distributed Computing – Jim Waldo, Geoff Wyant, Ann Wollrath, Sam Kendall 
The Next 700 Programming Languages – P. J. Landin 
Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? – John Backus 
Reflections on Trusting Trust – Ken Thompson 
Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big – Richard Gabriel 
An experimental evaluation of the assumption of independence in multiversion programming – John Knight and Nancy Leveson 
Arguments and Results – James Noble 
A Laboratory For Teaching Object-Oriented Thinking – Kent Beck, Ward Cunningham 
Programming as an Experience: the inspiration for Self – David Ungar, Randall B. Smith 
这里面文章的作者大牛如云啊，图灵奖得主、IEEE和ACM的Fellow。当然，还有Beck和Cunningham这样的实干家（没有听说过？面壁十天。XP、设计模式、重构、JUnit甚至Wiki都是他们搞出来的啊。）

Feathers的文章显然成了这几天网上的热门话题，我们另外一本已经获得版权的书《SOA Patterns》（Manning，2009）的作者Arnon Rotem-Gal-Oz受他启发，写了“所有架构师都应该至少读上两遍的十篇论文”：

1. The Byzantine Generals Problem (1982) by Leslie Lamport, Robert Shostak and Marshall Pease
2. Go To statements considered harmfull (1968) - by Edsger W. Dijkstra 
3. A Note on Distributed Computing (1994) - by Samuel C. Kendall, Jim Waldo, Ann Wollrath and Geoff Wyant
4. Big Ball of Mud (1999) - Brian Foote and Joseph Yoder 
5. No Silver Bullet Essence and Accidents of Software Engineering (1987) - Frederick P. Brooks 
6. The Open Closed Principle (1996) - Robert C. Martin (Uncle Bob) 
7. IEEE1471-2000 A recommended practice for architectural description of software intensive systems (2000) 
8. Harvest, Yield, and Scalable Tolerant Systems (1999) Armando Fox, Eric A. Brewer 
9. An Introduction to Software Architecture (1993) - David Garlan and Mary Shaw 
10. Who Needs an Architect? (2003) Martin Fowler

注意到了吗，其中的第3篇是Feathers也推荐的。

更有意思的是，我们大家熟悉的Robert Martin大叔 [也是我们图灵的作者呵呵，《敏捷软件开发》（C#版），什么，你搞.NET的居然没有读过？面壁十天。] 也因此写了blog。原来有位叫David的同学在Feathers的blog下说了几句不靠谱的话，把一向脾气很好的Bob大叔也激怒了。David小子说：“你咋不直接给出PDF呢？要是这些文章真的重要，应该免费读到不是？瞧你那口气，牛X得不行，真让人不爽。得了您吧。” 说实话，这口气咋让我觉得像是咱同胞呢……瀑布汗啊。