
Software as Soulcraft and the Metaphysics of Engineering with Neal Davis
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Is There a Strategic Advantage in Learning Python?
i would love to just hear you talk about that. For most of history, we can separate computing into kind of a mystical strand and a practical, very pragmatic strand. In languages like lisp, which are far more mathematical, they're concerned with correctness of expression. And so the computing language is there. There's this really pie in the sky philosophical, philosophical affectation tat this can be done. It was never terribly main stream. But one of the things that happened is, in the early twentieth century, hilbert put out his list of, whatever, the hundredas haverme problemo.
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