CodeHistory.org https://validator.w3.org/feed/docs/rss2.html Xen and Paravirtualization: Virtual Machines Before Hardware Support Caught Up Atlas Supervisor and the Operating System Behind Early Virtual Memory TENEX and TOPS-20: Interactive Computing on the PDP-10 OS/2 and the Failed Attempt to Define the Next PC Operating System AmigaOS and the Multimedia Operating System Built for Preemptive Multitasking NeXTSTEP and the Object-Oriented Operating System That Became macOS’s Ancestor FreeBSD and the Continuation of the Berkeley Unix Tradition Exokernel and the Radical Idea of Giving Applications More Control Mac OS X, Darwin, and the Merger of Unix with the Macintosh VMware and the Return of Full-System Virtualization on x86 Rust and the Attempt to Make Systems Programming Memory-Safe HotSpot and Adaptive JIT Compilation: Optimizing Programs While They Run Lex and Yacc: Turning Compiler Construction into a Toolchain Lua and the Small Embeddable Language That Disappeared Inside Applications TypeScript and the Gradual Typing of the JavaScript Ecosystem Perl and the Scripting Language That Glued Unix and the Early Web Together Ruby and Yukihiro Matsumoto’s Search for Programmer Happiness PHP and the Language That Grew Up Inside the Web Server Haskell and the Decision to Make Pure Functional Programming Practical Ada and the DoD’s Attempt to Standardize a Language for Embedded Systems Laning and Zierler’s Algebraic Compiler: Writing Mathematics Instead of Machine Code Ferranti Mark 1: Programming the First Commercial General-Purpose Stored-Program Computer Goldstine and von Neumann’s Flow Diagrams: Drawing Programs Before Flowcharts Had a Name SHARE and the First Program Library: When Computer Users Began Sharing Software The IAS Machine and the Coding Style That Spread the von Neumann Architecture Alick Glennie and Autocode: The First Step from Machine Orders to Compiled Notation Harvard Mark I and the Birth of Large-Scale Program Preparation ENIAC’s 1948 Stored-Program Conversion: Reprogramming the First Electronic General-Purpose Computer George Stibitz and Remote Computing: The 1940 Teletype Demonstration Colossus and the Wartime Practice of Reconfigurable Electronic Programming The Stack Is a Social Artifact: How Layers Accumulate People, Standards, and History When Code Became a Supply Chain: Dependencies, Packages, and Trust Standards Are Executable Agreements: Why Interoperability Is a Social Achievement The Cost of Abstraction: Every Convenience Moves Complexity Somewhere Software Archaeology: Reading Old Code as Historical Evidence Debugging as a Way of Knowing: How Programmers Learn What Machines Actually Do Defaults Are Decisions: The Invisible Politics of Software Design Interfaces Outlive Implementations: The Durable Boundary in Computing The Hidden Work of Maintenance: Why Software History Is Mostly About Change When Software Became Infrastructure: From Programs to Dependence Lin Padgham, Michael Winikoff, and Prometheus: Engineering Multi-Agent Systems Systematically Michael Littman and Markov Games: Extending Reinforcement Learning to Multiple Agents Jeffrey Bradshaw and KAoS: Policies for Governing Autonomous Agents Peter Stone and RoboCup: Multi-Agent Learning in a Competitive World Hyacinth Nwana and Software Agents: Classifying the Agent Boom of the 1990s Michael Wellman and Market-Oriented Programming Tuomas Sandholm and Automated Negotiation: Algorithms for Deals, Auctions, and Contracts Keith Decker and TAEMS: Modeling Tasks for Distributed Agent Coordination Home Journal