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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

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The Concept of Mind by Gilbert Ryle

Programming is the activity of matching some significant part and aspect of the real world to the symbol manipulation. What Nower wants to do is map the, the, all the symbol manipulation going on in the computer to real world activities. He actually gives us like a behavioralist take on what programming is. And he's offering a really good conception of what programming is that helps explain why having a misunderstanding of what Programming is can be so harmful at first place.

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