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Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Future of Coding

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Is Software Modification the Name of the Game?

Software modification is the name of the game. What would it be for a program to know how it should respond to changes in the world? And yet I think we all realize that's incredibly important as part of what programming is. If we could write a program and yet it couldn't change, we would say, you know, we're missing something.

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