Everything about Program Files

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Program FilesA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Automated System for Detecting Plagiarism in Files Containing Program CodeInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)The most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Rewriting executable files to measure program behaviorCited 85 times
5. Go sideways: NTFS linksA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: WoW64A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Rewriting executable files to measure program behavior

  James R. Larus, Thomas Ball · 1994 · Software: Practice and Experience · 85 citations

• 2FAST2Q: a general-purpose sequence search and counting program for FASTQ files

  Afonso M. Bravo, Athanasios Typas, Jan-Willem Veening · 2022 · PeerJ · 32 citations

• Using Existing Employee Assistance Program Case Files to Demonstrate Outcomes

  Jodi M. Jacobson, Andrea L. Jones, Natalie Bowers · 2011 · Journal of Workplace Behavioral Health · 16 citations

• A program to draw pedigrees using LINKAGE or LINKSYS data files

  D. CURTIS · 1990 · Annals of Human Genetics · 16 citations

• Syntax‐directed compression of program files

  Jyrki Katajainen, Martti Penttonen, Jukka Teuhola · 1986 · Software: Practice and Experience · 11 citations

• OTS: A program for converting Noldus Observer data files to SDIS files

  Roger Bakeman, Vicenç Quera · 2000 · Behavior Research Methods, Instruments, & Computers · 11 citations

• ZigZagFuzz: Interleaved Fuzzing of Program Options and Files

  Ahcheong Lee, Youngseok Choi, Shin Hong · 2025 · ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology · 11 citations

• WATIN—A COMPUTER PROGRAM FOR GENERATING INPUT FILES FOR WATEQF

  Carl O. Moses, Janet S. Herman · 1986 · Groundwater · 11 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Automated System for Detecting Plagiarism in Files Containing Program Code

  National Research University Higher School of Economics, Moscow, Russian Federation, M. A. Bubnova · 2025 · Informacionnye Tehnologii · 1 citations

• Method of Searching for Clones of the Program Code in Binary Executive Files

  E. V. Zavadskii, A. V. Bulat, N. A. Gribkov · 2024 · Automatic Control and Computer Sciences · 1 citations

• Stata tip 160: Drop capture program drop from ado-files

  Daniel Klein · 2025 · The Stata Journal: Promoting communications on statistics and Stata · 0 citations

• Design of a Program Module for Splitting and Merging Large-Scale Data Files

  Seung-Ju Jang · 2025 · Journal of the Korea Institute of Information and Communication Engineering · 0 citations

• rwl_read: A MATLAB program to identify and correct formatting errors in tree-ring measurement files

  Yang Liu · 2023 · SoftwareX · 0 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Reconfigurable Processor Array A Bit Sliced Parallel Computer (USA)A. Rushton · 1986
• Interactive Computing SeriesKenneth C. Laudon · 1997
• Mastering today's softwareEdward G. Martin, Charles S. Parker · 1992
• WordPress For DummiesLisa Sabin-Wilson · 2007
• Your OfficeAmy S. Kinser, Eric Kinser · 2012
• Learning PerlRandal L. Schwartz, Tom Phoenix · 1993
• JavaScriptDavid Flanagan · 1996
• Peter Norton's Introduction to ComputersPeter Norton · 1988

Ranked by number of editions on Open Library, a rough measure of how lasting a book is.

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