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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

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Programming as Text Production

Ivan Sutherland: The theory building view of programming helps explain it. And the programming as text production does not, he says. What I am concerned with is the activity of matching some significant part and aspect of an activity in the real world to the formal symbol manipulation that can be done by a program running on a computer. With such a notion, it follows directly that the programming activity I'm talking about must include the development in time corresponding to the changes taking place in theReal World.

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