People of ACM – Russ Cox

(acm.org)

68 points | by signa11 5 days ago ago

9 comments

  • pbohun 2 hours ago 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

  • shaftoe444 a day ago ago

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

    • Cthulhu_ 3 hours ago ago

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

    • ignoramous an hour ago ago

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

      • arccy an hour ago ago

        don't we already have the words slop and vibecode

    • pstuart 3 hours ago ago

      An amazing distillation of the craft.

  • SA9G 23 minutes ago ago

    I love the "Tornado" term and "software debt"... worked with a few over the years, fixed the bug but broke the paradigm. Well articulated wisdom.

  • dchest 3 hours ago 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.