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tikhonj 8 days ago

There's a classic Peter Naur paper about this from 1985: "Programming as Theory Building"

https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

metadat 8 days ago | parent | next [-]

Discussed 7 months ago (45 comments):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42592543

Great read overall, an interesting challenge to the conception that at its core, programming is about producing code.

grimgrin 7 days ago | parent | prev [-]

found a copy that isn't a scanned paper:

https://gist.github.com/dpritchett/fd7115b6f556e40103ef