During high school, my Italian literature teacher, prof. Giuseppina Lanera, suggested us some books particularly worth reading. Already fond of computer, I wrote one of my first electronic documents using a version of the very old Ventura Publisher running under DOS with GEM graphic. A few days ago I found out this a very old print dated 1992. These are the books. Only the surname of the authors is reported and the titles are in Italian. I read about one third of them during high school and plan to read the rest in the future (maybe when I will retire).
There are some books I read and I liked very much which are not in this list, but this is another story!
"Elenco dei Libri di Lettura"
Alvaro
Gente in Aspromonte
Bacchelli
Il diavolo di Pontelungo
Balzac
Eugenia Grandet
Papa Goriot
Borges
Finzioni
Bassani
Il giardino dei Finzi-Contini
Borghese
Rubé
Brancati
Don Giovanni in Sicilia
Il bell'Antonio
Buzzati
Il deserto dei tartari
La boutique del mistero
Bulgakov
Cuore di cane
Calvino
Il cavaliere inesistente
Il visconte dimezzato
Il barone rampante
Il sentiero dei nidi di ragno
Se una notte d'inverno un viaggiatore
Lezioni americane
Camus
La peste
Lo straniero
Cassola
La ragazza di Bube
Cechov
Racconti
Chandler
Il grande sonno
Il lungo addio
Conrad
Cuore di tenebra
Racconti di mare e di costa
Lord Jim
D'Annunzio
Il piacere
Il fuoco
Defoe
Robinson Crusoe
Moll Flanders
De Marchi
Demetrio Pianelli
Il cappello del prete
Diderot
Jaques il fatalista
Dostoevskij
I fratelli Karamazov
Delitto e castigo
Il giocatore
L'idiota
Eco
Il nome della rosa
Diario minimo
Fitzgerald
Il grande Gatsby
Flaubert
Madame Bovary
Fogazzaro
Piccolo mondo antico
Malombra
Foscolo
Le ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis
Frank
Diario
Gadda
Quer pasticciaccio brutto de via Merulana
La cognizione del dolore
Ginzburg
Lessico familiare
La famiglia Manzoni
Goethe
Le affinità elettive
I dolori del giovane Werther
Faust
Gogol
Le anime morte
Hemingway
Il vecchio e il mare
Addio alle armi
Hugo
I miserabili
Notre-Dame de Paris
Joyce
I racconti di Dublino
Ulisse
Jovine
Le terre del sacramento
La signora Ava
Kafka
I racconti
Il castello
Il processo
Hammet
Il falcone matese
Laclos
Le relazioni pericolose
Lawrence
L'amante di Lady Chattely
Levi C.
Cristo si è fermato a Eboli
Levi P.
Se questo è un uomo
La tregua
Se non ora quando?
Il sistema periodico
La chiave a stella
Mann
I Buddenbrook
Morte a Venezia
Tonio Kroger
La montagna incantata
Doctor Faust
Manzoni
I promessi sposi
Marquez
Cent'anni di solitudine
Maupassant
Racconti
Moravia
Gli indifferenti
Agostino
Racconti romani
La ciociara
La noia
Morante
L'isola di Arturo
Menzogna e sortilegio
La storia
Musil
L'uomo senza qualità
Nievo
Le confessioni di un italiano
Orwell
La fattoria degli animali
1984
Palazzeschi
Le sorelle Materassi
Pasternak
Il dottor Zivago
Pavese
La casa in collina
La bella estate
La luna e i falò
Dialoghi con Leucò
Pasolini
Ragazzi di vita
Una vita violenta
Pirandello
Il fu Mattia Pascal
Uno, nessuno, centomila
I quaderni di Serafino Gubbio operatore
Novelle per un anno
Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore
Enrico IV
Pratolini
Metello
Cronache di poveri amanti
Cronaca familiare
Poe
Racconti
Proust
Alla ricerca del tempo perduto
Salinger
Il giovane Holden
Sciascia
Il giorno della civetta
A ciascuno il suo
Il mare colore del vino
Candido
Scott
Ivanhoe
Silone
Fontamara
Il segreto di Luca
Stendhal
La certosa di Parma
Il rosso e il nero
Stevenson
Dottor Jeckyll e il signor Hyde
Svevo
La coscienza di Zeno
Tomasi di Lampedusa
Il gattopardo
Tolstoj
Guerra e pace
Verga
I malavoglia
Mastro don Gesualdo
Vittorini
Conversazioni in Sicilia
Il garofano rosso
Uomini e no
Voltaire
Candido
Racconti filosofici
Wilde
Il ritratto di Dorian Gray
Yourcenar
Memorie di Adriano
L'opera al nero
Sunday, 26 February 2017
Sunday, 5 February 2017
The evolution of Short Messages
Short Messages (SMS) were very useful to send messages in real time to a mobile phone. Before smartphones becoming widely used and permanent internet connection available at reasonable prices, sending SMS was the quickest way to send brief informations without talking. Whatsapp was the first app to exploit the new digital environment to provide free SMS for everyone. Whatsapp developers had the intuition that people want things easy and were already used to SMS, so they developed something similar to SMS but sending messages as internet traffic, exactly as for emails. Nowadays the number of Whatsapp messages is reported higher that the number of SMS and many alternatives appeared, such as Telegram.
When Whatsapp was launched I wondered why people needed such a service when emails can perfectly do the job. A properly configured e-mail client can send messages in real time and received messages can pop up just like SMS. Moreover you can attach every file you want, use it on any device, also if you don't have a cell phone number.
People want it easy like SMS? Well, "it shouldn't be too hard to write an email client looking like Whatsapp" I told to myself short after Whatsapp was launched.
I just found out that I was not the one thinking about that. F-droid, my favourite software repository for Android, showed Delta Chat in the new software list. The developers not only had my same idea, but actually made it real!
When Whatsapp was launched I wondered why people needed such a service when emails can perfectly do the job. A properly configured e-mail client can send messages in real time and received messages can pop up just like SMS. Moreover you can attach every file you want, use it on any device, also if you don't have a cell phone number.
People want it easy like SMS? Well, "it shouldn't be too hard to write an email client looking like Whatsapp" I told to myself short after Whatsapp was launched.
I just found out that I was not the one thinking about that. F-droid, my favourite software repository for Android, showed Delta Chat in the new software list. The developers not only had my same idea, but actually made it real!
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