Everything about System programming language

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: System programming languageA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Descend: A Safe GPU Systems Programming LanguageInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: The C Programming LanguageThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: TXL: A rapid prototyping system for programming language dialectsCited 96 times
5. Go sideways: High-level programming languageA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: CompilerA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• TXL: A rapid prototyping system for programming language dialects

  James R. Cordy, Charles D. Halpern-Hamu, Eric Promislow · 1991 · Computer Languages · 96 citations

• UNIX Time-Sharing System: The C Programming Language

  D. M. Ritchie, S. C. Johnson, M. E. Lesk · 1978 · Bell System Technical Journal · 66 citations

• Using a programming language for digital system design

  R.K. Gupta, S.Y. Liao · 1997 · IEEE Design & Test of Computers · 29 citations

• A Natural Language Programming System for Text Processing

  M. P. Barnett, W. M. Ruhsam · 1968 · IEEE Transactions on Engineering Writing and Speech · 9 citations

• Psycholinguistic research in language intervention programming: The pronoun system

  Carol L. Waryas · 1973 · Journal of Psycholinguistic Research · 9 citations

• A Transportable Programming Language (TPL) System. I. overview

  P. A. D. Maine, S. Leong, C. G. Davis · 1985 · International Journal of Computer & Information Sciences · 8 citations

• LABTRAN. Language and system for programming chemical experiments

  E. C. Toren, R. N. Carey, A. E. Sherry · 1972 · Analytical Chemistry · 7 citations

• LISP-A CAD System Programming Language

  Neal M. Holtz, William J. Rasdorf · 1983 · Journal of Technical Topics in Civil Engineering · 5 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Descend: A Safe GPU Systems Programming Language

  Bastian Köpcke, Sergei Gorlatch, Michel Steuwer · 2024 · Proceedings of the ACM on Programming Languages · 8 citations

• ADAPTIVE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE LEARNING SYSTEM BASED ON GENERATIVE AI

  · 2023 · Issues In Information Systems · 4 citations

• UnrealMentor GPT: A System for Teaching Programming Based on a Large Language Model

  Hongli Zhu, Jian Xiang, Zhichuang Yang · 2025 · Computer Applications in Engineering Education · 2 citations

• Data Visualization Analytic for Understanding the Dynamics of Operating System Using Programming Language Paradigm

  Adeagbo Moruf Adedeji, Agbaje Halimah Adebimpe, Kasali Abdulwakil Adekunle · 2022 · International Journal of Data Science · 1 citations

• Calculation of the equilibrium composition of multicomponent gas phase system using Julia programming language

  G.V. Belov, N.M. Aristova, M.A. Maltsev · 2022 · Vestnik Ob"edinennogo instituta vysokikh temperatur · 1 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• The C Programming LanguageBrian W. Kernighan, Dennis MacAlistair Ritchie · 1978
• Programming Language PragmaticsMichael L. Scott · 1999
• The AWK programming languageAlfred V. Aho, Brian W. Kernighan · 1988
• Programming languages, information structures, and machine organizationPeter Wegner · 1968
• Program design with pseudocodeT. E. Bailey, Therold E. Bailey · 1983
• Programming languages for business problem solvingShouhong Wang, Hai Wang · 2007
• ASPLOS-IX proceedingsInternational Conference on Architectural Support for Programming Languages and Operating Systems (9th 2000 Cambridge, Mass.) · 2000
• Multi-agent programmingRafael H. Bordini · 2005

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

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