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“Programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute.”
― Hal Abelson https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Abelson -
Influentual and smart people in computer science disagree, in polar opposition, on whether computer science is definitely about programming computers, or whether it is definitely not about programming computers.
Our answer to this decides what it is that we should teach in computer science departments at universities.
In Eric Normand's reading of Hamming's Turing Award lecture, he offers extensive commentary on this dilemma:
lispcast.com/one-mans-view-of-…
#Lispcast #RichardHamming #TuringAward #TuringAward1968 #HalAbelson
