Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur
Future of Coding
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Is There a Final Theory? And I Don't Know That There's an Endpoint?
I don't know that we ever arrive at the final theory with programming, right? I don't know there is ever a moment where it's like, and now I have that theory. And he really wants to put the point home that you can't collapse these things. He talks about functional programming as a farmer. So yeah, I do think that if you read the Ryall, I see the distinction he's making. Like, over time, the building work becomes less and less, and the having becomes more and more.
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