I'm surprised no one has already mentioned this, but this idea has been expressed before in Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985): he argues that a program can’t be reduced to its source text; it’s a…
I'm surprised no one has already mentioned this, but this idea has been expressed before in Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" (1985): he argues that a program can’t be reduced to its source text; it’s a…