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I didn't see what you are seeing in the thesis. There was nothing that said that the sole end goal of programming is to be expressive to humans (whether those

I didn't see what you are seeing in the thesis. There was nothing that said that the sole end goal of programming is to be expressive to humans (whether those humans be yourself, other coders or end users). As for audience, when coding you can consider your audience to be both humans that follow you, as well as the machine it is running on.

Kalium 12y ago
One of the ideas mentioned is that code that's readily understood by humans is code that will be efficient for computers. I'm not sure I agree with this.
aswanson 12y ago
As well as your future self, weeks from now, to avoid having to say 'What the fuck was I thinking when I wrote this?'.