Papers I've known and loved
Influenced a lot when I built the SQRL programming language:
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://yanniss.github.io/next-paradigm-onward19.pdf
Codd's original database paper. Helped me think about the original intent of databases.
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.seas.upenn.edu/~zives/03f/cis550/codd.pdf
Possibly the best book about database theory. By CJ Date:
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/DTATRM.pdf
Fun old paper on languages:
https://web.archive.org/web/2/https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Landin66.pdf
daniel.flounder.online/