C89 The ANSI standard. C23 the most recent draft. Three modest proposals for fixing the C standard. PLOS paper ISO C is not suitable
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State machine methods
Papers on automata theory and sequential functions The automata theoretic roots of process algebra. Large State Machines and Sequential functions Classic papers Hartmanis “Loop free
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Scientific credibility and IEEE
Hundreds of Paper-Mill Papers Peddled in Ads Were Later Published A study by social scientist Anna Abalkina of Germany’s Free University of Berlin and colleagues
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Von Neumann on the empirical roots of mathematics
See also: Von Neumann’s critique of automata theory and logic in computer science
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Specifying digital systems using sequential functions
These papers introduce sequential functions for specifying digital systems like operating systems and networks. The mathematical basis comes from Moore machines, Moore machine products, and
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Rabin-Scott Finite Automata and Their Decision Problems
One of the most important Computer Science papers introduced finite state machine language recognizers, the equivalence between non-deterministic and deterministic finite automata (in terms of
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Al Gore, the Internet, and the Media
Al Gore really did have a pivotal role in the development of the Internet and the incessant and ignorant jeering from the media on this
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Kuth’s Merge Sort in C
Taken from Knuth Algorithm S mergesort P162-163 Vol 3 Second edition 1998 The major change is that the scratch buffer is not required to be
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There is a proposal to add “defer” to C. Its biggest example is taken from code that was originally designed to not manage storage at
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