Short, tongue-in-cheek essay by Edsger Dijkstra on old problems in programming, many of which are embarrassingly still with us: criticizes APL, BASIC, COBOL, FORTRAN, PL/I, natural language programming. http://www.cs.virginia.edu/~evans/cs655/readings/ewd498.html
Burroughs Corporation Records: large, impressive list of articles and reports Dijkstra wrote about all aspects of programming; most written while a research fellow for Burroughs, Netherlands. http://www.cbi.umn.edu/collections/inv/burros/cbi00090-031.html