Reflections on Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" and Its Relevance to Software Development
When I finished reading Peter Naur’s Programming as Theory Building my first thought was “How come nobody ever told me to read this?” I ended up reading it multiple times, as I attempted to collect…
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