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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

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Changing the Source Text Versus the Execution of the Program

Programming is changing the way in which input and outputs it's going to accept. The thing that establishes the set of all possible states is the source text, at least within this example. There's some galaxy-brained interpretations where it's like, oh, but what if it's a whole program that generates a program?

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