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#250 – Peter Wang: Python and the Source Code of Humans, Computers, and Reality
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is There a Leap in Programming?
The act of programming or using grammatical constructions of some underlying primitives is something that humans do learn, but every human learns this. What makes programming different has been that up to this point, when we try to give instructions to computing systems, all of our computers are an iterated system. The languages we use then emerge to give us ability and capability over these things. And as we build future computing systems, you actually already seeing this a little bit. It's much more about composition of modular blocks.
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