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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

CHAPTER

Programming Theories

Programming has to be person-specific but also domain-specific. I would not want to have to think about the difference between ARM machine code and x86, 64 machine code when parsing JSON. So what you see is essential versus inadvertent complexity. It's accidental because that implies that it's not fault.

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