Lessons

Twelve pieces of code. Twelve human stories. Chronological — from 1804 to the present — but not encyclopedic. Each lesson was chosen because the piece reveals something about what code is, who makes it, and what it does in the world.

• Spanning Tree Protocol — Radia Perlman
• Description du programme Molnart — Vera Molnár
• Unix Pipes — Doug McIlroy & Ken Thompson
• Note G — Ada Lovelace