Recommended Reading - oilshell/oil GitHub Wiki

This is a list of papers and articles I like, especially ones with "big ideas".

TODO: Linkify them all

TODO: Also see wiki.

System Design and Evolution

• Unix, Plan 9, and the Lurking Smalltalk (Kell)
• Design Beyond Human Abilities (Gabriel)
• Your Computer Is Already a Distributed System; Why Isn't Your Operating System?

Language Design Philosophy

• Notes on Postmodern Programming. (divergent models that can't be reconciled)

Unix Criticism

• A fork() in the road
• POSIX APIs: Good, Bad, and Ugly