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Software Philosophy

• Mob Software: The Erotic Life of Code [html] [pdf] - OOPSLA 2000 Keynote
• Interspersions - musical notes for Mob Software
• Worse Is Better discussion [html]
• Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big [html] [pdf] - the classic Worse is Better paper
• Worse Is Better Is Worse
• Is Worse Really Better?
• Models of Software Acceptance: How Winners Win
• Money Through Innovation Reconsidered
• Back to the Future: Is Worse (Still) Better?
• Back to the Future: Worse (Still) is Better!
• Lessons From The Science of Nothing At All [html]
• Master of Fine Arts in Software [html] [pdf]
• Used Software [pdf] - an early view on reuse
• What Computers Can't Do (and Why) [Wild pdf] [Mild pdf]- an early essay on computer limitations
• Whither Software (1.2 mb pdf)
• Turing, Searle, and Thought
• Triggers & Practice: How Extremes in Writing Relate to Creativity and Learning [pdf]
• The Road Not Taken [4.9 mb pdf]
• Patterns of Software (1.2 mb pdf)
• Science of Design (pdf)
• Form and Function in Software (pdf)
• Software Preservation (pdf)
• Do Programmers Need Seat Belts?
• What is Science? What is Art? [pdf]
• Explore; Discover; Understand [position paper pdf] [presentation pdf]
• Outsourcing: Those Cheap Bastards [position paper pdf] [presentation pdf]
• The Stability after Confusion [position paper pdf] [presentation pdf]
• Clients, Customers, and the Celebration of Change [position paper pdf]
• The Art of Lisp & Writing
• Writers' Workshops and the Work of Making Things (716 kb pdf)
• Creation: A Culture of Gift
• The Poetry of Programming
• Writers’ Workshops As Scientific Methodology
• Designed as Designer
• Science is Not Enough: On the Creation of Software [script (pdf)][slides (6.8mb pdf)]
• Better Science Through Art [pdf]
• Defamiliarization: Flarf, Conceptual Writing, and Using Flawed Software Tools as Creative Partners [pdf]
• The Structure of a Programming Language Revolution [pdf]
• Conferences & Остраннeние [pdf]
• Stray Thoughts on “Old Masters and Young Geniuses” [pdf]
• Virtual-world-inspired Programming Language Design [pdf]
• Life Takes Place [pdf]

Patterns & Alexander

• Repetition, Generativity, and Patterns [html] - the introduction to "Pattern Languages of Program Design, 2," Vlissides, John M., Coplien, James O., and Kerth, Norman L. (eds), Addison-Wesley, 1996
• Christopher Alexander: The Search for Beauty [pdf]
• The Nature of Order: The Post-Patterns World [pdf]
• The Nature of Order [pdf - 45mb]
• The Jini Community Pattern Language [pdf]
• Fine Points of Pattern Writing [pdf]
• Workshop Leader Seminar [pdf]
• A Pattern Language for Textual Electronic Communication [pdf]
• Notes on “A Result in Visual Aesthetics” [pdf]
• Notes for “Notes on "Notes" ” [pdf]
• A Pattern Language for Writers' Workshops [pdf]
• Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form”: The Presentation [pdf]
• Notes on “Notes on the Synthesis of Form” [pdf]
• The Art of Deep Shepherding [pdf]

Personal

• Curriculum Vitae
• rpg
• Nickieben Bourbaki - who is he?!
• RPG’s Writing Broadside [html] - writing advice
• Tone, Tone, Tone [html] - tubes
• Fake Systems Qual circa 1982 [html]
• Band photo
• Home Page
• Official photo and bio
• Official high-res photo
• Books I've written
• Text of my parents' memorial and two photos
• Memorial for Leonard N. Zubkoff
• Wizards Party Invititation After Hunter S. Thompson
• Allen Newell Award Statement
• Bad Companies

Technical Stuff

• The Bosks are Thorny, Grim, and Icky (InkWell Retrospective) [pdf] - added 11/18/2020
• Patterns: You're Doing It Completely Wrong [pdf] - added 11/18/2020
• A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity (presentation) [pdf] - added 11//18/2020
• A Search for Beauty / A Struggle with Complexity: Christopher Alexander [pdf]
• "in the control room of the banquet" [pdf]
• InkWell: A Creative Writer’s Creative Assistant [pdf]
• I Throw Itching Powder at Tulips [pdf]
• Lisp-in-Lisp: High Performance and Portability [pdf]
• S-1 Common Lisp Implementation [pdf]
• Design of An Optimizing, Dynamically Retargetable Compiler for Common Lisp [pdf]
• The Commons as New Economy & What This Means for Research
• Design Beyond Human Abilities
• Open Standards, Open Source, and the Public Good
• Conscientious Software
• Ultra-Large-Scale System Workshop at OOPSLA 2006
• OOPSLA 2005
• Guide to Successful OOPSLA Submissions
• OOPSLA 2005: Explore; Discover; Understand
• Self-Sustaining Systems Overview [pdf]
• Self-Sustaining Systems Engineering Presentation [pdf]
• Common Lisp Object System [pdf]
• CLOS: Integrating Object-Oriented and Functional Programming [pdf]
• CLOS in Context: The Shape of the Design Space [pdf]
• Concepts [pdf] and Functions [pdf]—the CLOS specification
• The Why of Y [pdf]
• Technical Issues of Separation in Function Cells and Value Cells [html]
• The Design of Parallel Programming Languages [html]
• The Evolution of Lisp - HOPL Version [pdf]
• The Evolution of Lisp - Uncut Version [pdf]
• A Pattern of Language Evolution - [pdf]
• Fluid Domains [html] - PhD thesis stuff
• Deliberate Writing [html]- PhD thesis stuff
• A Critique of Common Lisp [pdf]
• Qlisp research overview [html]
• Original Qlambda paper [pdf]
• Later Qlisp paper [pdf]
• Qlisp implementation and further research [pdf]
• Energize/Cadillac research overview [html]
• Foundation for a C++ Environment [pdf]
• Letter to Chris DiBona and Tim O'Reilly [html]
• Andrew Binstock editorial in Unix Review: Lucid Lost [html]
• rpg's response to Lucid Lost [html]
• The Common Lisp Object System: An Overview [pdf]
• Onward! 2002 Proceedings [pdf]
• OOPSLA 2002 Debate Objects Have Failed
  • rpg's Opening Remarks [html]
  • gls's Opening Remarks [html]
  • Discursive Notes [1.1 mb pdf ]
  • Notes as Slides [7.1 mb pdf ]
• Performance and Evaluation of Lisp Systems (pdf)
• Requirements for a Common Prototyping System [pdf]
• Using CLOS-like Concepts in a Prototyping System [pdf]
• A Review of The Art of the Metaobject Protocol [pdf]
• Publication Culture in Computer Science and Software Engineering [pdf]
• Structured Descriptions [pdf]

Poetry

• My Master of Fine Arts in Poetry
• Leaf of My Puzzled Desire [pdf] - poems
• The Nature of Poetic Order [pdf] - a theory of poetry (slides)
• Annotations Toward a Theory of Poetry [pdf]
• The Sun Rises, Rises, Rises [pdf] - a review of "The Daily Mirror," by David Lehman
• Lower Standards [pdf] - about writing a poem a day and the roles of selection and perfection in creating art
• First Semester Annotations [pdf]
• Second Semester Annotations [pdf]
• Third Semester Annotations [pdf]
• Third Semester Essay [pdf]
• Fourth Semester Annotations [pdf]
• Fifth Semester Annotations [pdf]
• Bibliography - what I read at Warren Wilson
• Twenty Poems of Georg Trakl [pdf]
• Poem a Day Project - poems written since March 2000
• Analysis of the Revision of a Poem by Bill Knott[pdf]
• The Lace Remains [pdf]

Feyerabend

• Feyerabend Project Page
• Original invitation
• General Workshop Invitation
• Workshop preparation
• Workshop I results
  • You can’t get there from here, but you can get here from there
  • Deconstruction of Computing
  • Computing Rainbow
  • What We Like
  • How to Move Ahead
  • Blank Page Syndrome
• Workshop II results
  • Deconstruction of Computing
    • Love/Hate
    • Sickness/Wellness
  • Contrasts to Science
  • Construct a Device
• Workshop III results
  • Workshop preparation
  • How to Move Forward
• Biological Framings of Problems in Computing - a workshop
• The Feyerabend Project at ETAPS 2003 - a new workshop
• The Feyerabend Project at ECOOP 2002 - a workshop
• The Extravagaria Workshop at OOPSLA 2002 - a workshop
• The Second Extravagaria Workshop at OOPSLA 2004 - a workshop
• Third Extravagaria Workshop, OOPSLA 2005 - a workshop
• Fourth Extravagaria Workshop, OOPSLA 2008 - a photography workshop
• Fifth Extravagaria Workshop, OOPSLA 2009 - a 5-day photography workshop
• The Road: Reinventing Education

Other

• Waltz in Illinois [pdf]
• John McCarthy: Stories [pdf]
• Christopher Alexander Memorial [pdf]