Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur
Future of Coding
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Object-Oriented Programming - The Theory of a Program
If you have a theory of a program, you are able to modify that program. And having that theory helps because designing that modification depends on your understanding of the similarity between the new thing that you need to enable the program to do and what's already there. This is one of the reasons that if you come from an object-oriented programming background and you dive into a code base of some functional programmer, it doesn't make sense. Because there's these background assumptions of values and theories and why you would want to organize code in a certain way.
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