Jonathan Aldrich - Classic Papers

Classic Papers

Daniel H. H. Ingalls. The Smalltalk-76 Programming System Design and Implementation. Proc. Principles of Programming Languages, 1978.
Alan C. Kay. The Early History of Smalltalk. Proc. History of Programming Languages, 1993.
David Ungar and Randall Smith. Self: the Power of Simplicity. Proc. Object-Oriented Programming, Systems, Languages, and Applications, 1987.
Peter Canning, William Cook, Walter Hill, Walter Olthoff, and John C. Mitchell. F-Bounded Polymorphism for Object-Oriented Programming. Proc. Functional Programming Languages and Computer Architecture, 1989.
Eric Ernst. Family Polymorphism. Proc. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 2002.
William R. Cook. On Understanding Data Abstraction, Revisited. Onward! Essay, 2009. This is a (very!) recent paper, not a traditional classic, but it is the best summary I know of what makes objects unique.

Gregor Kiczales, John Lamping, Anurag Mendhekar, Chris Maeda, Cristina Videira Lopes, Jean-Marc Loingtier, and John Irwin. Aspect-Oriented Programming. Proc. European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, 1997.

Robert E Strom and Shaula Yemini. Typestate: A Programming Language Concept for Enhancing Software Reliability. IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering 12(1):157-171, 1986. Note: this paper is a very important contribution to the literature, but is unavailable in IEEE's electronic library, so I've made a scanned copy available here for academic use. Please notify me if it because available at IEEE and I will link to that instead.