Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur
Future of Coding
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Building Theories of Programming
Rile: If you want to gain the original theory of a program, you need to work with its original authors who have that theory. Rile: Research does not generally consist only in operating with pens, but also in operating with microscopes and telescopes,. balances and galvanometers, log lines and litmus papers. Theories which they finally built feel like it's this thing that you have to do all this work to arrive at. And I almost feel like why not treat a theory as this soup of the mind that is ever brewing and the expression of which is just taking a drop or two out of each bowl?
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