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Ken Iverson's Turing Award lecture, "Notation as a Tool of Thought" should be interesting to you and others here, particularly those who subscribe to the "imple
by bayareaguy 19y ago
Ken Iverson's Turing Award lecture, "Notation as a Tool of Thought" should be interesting to you and others here, particularly those who subscribe to the "implementation as specification" idea.
http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf http://www.jdl.ac.cn/turing/pdf/p444-iverson.pdf
Some of the ancedotes here are good too:
http://keiapl.info/anec/ http://keiapl.info/anec/
- comatose_kid 19y agoThanks for the links. I especially liked the following observation: "During the APL75 conference in Pisa Ken visited the Leaning Tower. He pronounced it the first software project -- late and overbudget, and from early on everyone could see that it was going to be a disaster, but by then the project was too far along and there was nothing to do but plow ahead."