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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality

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The Difference Between Complexity and Complication

With programming, it seems like you can build much more complicated systems. Excel is actually a great example of this, of kind of a counterpoint to that. One has to really pay attention to the difference between when an end user is expressing something onto a system that exists versus when they're extending the system's capability for someone else to interface with.

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