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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

CHAPTER

I Can Explain a Program Starting From Any Place

Theories don't have any particular order because there are a know how and none of our know how has any particular order that we have to adhere to, he says. But yeah, so I think theories don't have no particular order as much as they do in art criticism or art historical people explaining paintings. In the same way, explaining a painting, what do you do? Start in the top left corner? No, you start from the subject. If it has a subject and if it doesn't have a subject, you startfrom the fact that it doesn't having a subject.

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