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beagle3 on May 1, 2017 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programming as a Way of Thinking

The canonical, award winning version of these ideas is described in Ken Iverson's seminal 1979 paper 'Notation as a tool of thought'[0] - highly recommended to anyone who finds the ideas discussed interesting (even if they find the scientific american article lacking ... because it is)

[0] http://www.jsoftware.com/papers/tot.htm

wmacaluso on May 1, 2017 [–]

Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf) is also a closely related read.

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