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dhorthyyesterday at 7:31 PM1 replyview on HN

I have had the phrase "programming is building a theory" spinning in my head for days, especially since watching this pragmatic engineer pod with Kent Beck https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddHQQtjIOpw


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_doctor_loveyesterday at 9:53 PM

You're hopefully already aware that this references a famous paper from 1985? https://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf