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Structure of a Programming Language Revolution by Richard P. Gabriel

Future of Coding

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Do Numbers Exist? Or Are They Made Up by Us?

A lot of the conversation is ultimately about like numbers, right? Do numbers exist? Or are they made up by us? How could we ever discover them? And there's also like triangleness itself, like, what is it that all triangles have in common. But if you start trying to go down this path called nominalism, where,. so there's pla platonism and nominalism. There's others, but nominalism says like, now, those things don't exist. There are no numbers. It clearly does exist in some sense.

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