Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur
Future of Coding
Is Programming Really a Production of a Program?
Programming properly should be regarded as an activity by which the programmers form or achieve a certain kind of insight, a theory of the matters at hand. To me, that was a beautiful intro to the paper. He doesn't really spell it out for you. But this is really important that the activity of programming is not about writing programs but building up knowledge in our heads. And I think that that's wonderful because I mean, I love that aspect of programming so much more than I like having a useful program at the end of the day.
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