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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

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Building Theories, I'm Uneasy With It

"I've got this sort of sense of unease about this conception of a theory. Like it does, in all of the examples given, it is given a kind of a discreteness or a singularization that I'm uncomfortable with," he says. "The housewife trying to find out whether a carpet will fit a floor is engaged in an unambitious task of theorizing."

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