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This discussion brings to mind Robert Lefkowitz's Pycon keynote from 2007 on Programming Literacy, very similar to this video from Stanford: http://www.youtube.
by moioci 15y ago
This discussion brings to mind Robert Lefkowitz's Pycon keynote from 2007 on Programming Literacy, very similar to this video from Stanford: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own-89vxYF8 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Own-89vxYF8. He is definitely an advocate of literate programming and basically says we will all be able to read programs when they can be written in English and not in code.
- hxa7241 15y ago> we will all be able to read programs when they can be written in English and not in code. Anyone thinking along those lines needs to read Dijkstra: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EW... (and maybe tack this on too: http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20101218T2158Z.html http://www.hxa.name/notes/note-hxa7241-20101218T2158Z.html ).