Liskov's Reading List for Computer Scientists

I attended Barbara Liskov's talk at the Heidelberg Laureate Forum and the list was not meant to be for 1975-2015. It was a more personal experience (including some history) about Liskov and her career.

If we're being picky I'd rather see important things that is relevant 2016-66.

I think it's really important to remember that a lot of these papers are relevant and important for modern systems.

"The Morning Paper" did a series in September on a bunch of older papers from the 70s about system design. https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/page/3/

As an example, https://blog.acolyer.org/2016/09/05/on-the-criteria-to-be-us... is just as relevant now as it was then. It shocks me over and over to find papers like that one; we as an industry seem to miss and forget the lessons that our forebearers learned.

As you probably know, there's a big "gap" between Computer Science and programming. While on HN we mostly talk about in terms of job interviews, it's more endemic than that. Most of my colleagues (and myself, many times) dismiss anything related to academia or academic papers as too hard, theoretical, and not useful.

This not only applies to simple things such as coding a paper's algorithms to test it out, but can be manifested as a refusal to read old literature to avoid making the same mistakes people did decades ago.