Too Long; Didn't Read
Peter Naur's classic paper from 1985 anticipated many of the concepts that are in common use in the industry today. Naur was a Danish scientist, winner of a Turing Award (equivalent to the Nobel Prize in computing) He took part in the development of Algol 60 and helped create the syntax model BNF that all programming languages use to define their grammar. The paper presents novel ideas for the time, then taken up by the agile manifesto placing humanistic values of knowledge acquisition over the Taylorist vision of software building.