10 Essays Every Programmer Should Read

Inspired by similar articles, I decided to list the 10 essays that have influenced my career, that I wish other programmers have read, ordered by publication date.

• No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks (1986)
• The Rise of "Worse is Better" by Richard Gabriel (1989)
• The Cathedral and the Bazaar by Eric S. Raymond (1997)
• Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years by Peter Norvig (2001)
• The Age of the Essay by Paul Graham (2004)

I'm still compiling this list, reviewing interesting articles I've read recently, to see if they should belong in the top 10:

• Why Functional Programming Matters by John Hughes (1984)
• The Three Rules Of Tdd by Uncle Bob (2005)
• Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters by Reg Braithwaite (2007)
• The Way of Testivus by Alberto Savoia (2007)
• On Designing and Deploying Internet-scale Services by James Hamilton (2007)
• Parsing Html The Cthulhu Way by Jeff Atwood (2009)