A science of operations

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1. bwestergardSep 2018
   A more recent work, reflecting the latest scholarship in the field, is Priestley's "A Science of Operations".
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2. tpetricekJan 2017
   A Science of Operations by Mark Priestley (http://www.springer.com/gb/book/9781848825543)

   This is cheating a bit, because the book is history of computer science rather than computer science, but I think anyone interested in programming should read it. We often think about history of computing (and what it teaches us) in a retrospective way (we see all the amazing totally revolutionary things that happened), but it turns out that if you look deeper, there is often a lot more continuity behind key ideas (and we just think it was a revolution, because we only know a little about the actual history). This book goes into detail for a number of major developments in (early) programming and it makes you think about possible alternatives. It was one of the books that inspired me to write this essay: http://tomasp.net/blog/2016/thinking-unthinkable/

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