Programming as Theory Building by Peter Naur

Published: Jan. 6, 2023, 9:50 p.m.

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This is Jimmy\\u2019s favourite paper! Here\\u2019s a copy someone posted on HitBug. Is it as good as the original? Likely not! Ivan also enjoyed this Theory Building business immensely; don\\u2019t be fooled by the liberal use of the \\u201cblonk\\u201d censor-tone to cover the galleon-hold of swearwords he let slip, those mostly pertain to the Ryle.

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For the next episode, we\\u2019re reading\\xa0No Silver Bullet by Fred Brooks.

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Links

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The Witness, again!

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The Generation Ship Model of Software Development

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The philosophy of suckless.org

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Stop Writing Dead Programs, a talk by Jack Rusher, gets a whole new meaning!

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Someone rewrote Super Mario 64\\u2019s code to run faster and better on original N64 hardware.

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Music featured in this episode:

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