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2025-10-09 21:16 UTC
@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net I love how Alan Perlis put it in the intro to SICP:
"Even though our programs are carefully handcrafted discrete collections of symbols, mosaics of interlocking functions, they continually evolve: we change them as our perception of the model deepens, enlarges, generalizes until the model ultimately attains a metastable place within still another model with which we struggle....
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@beandreams@friendhole.social 2025-10-09 21:16
@RosaCtrl@social.vivaldi.net ..."The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate."