Programming as Theory Building

Written by mcsee | Published 2020/09/09
Tech Story Tags: programming | software-engineering | computer-science | refactoring | theory-building | programming-as-theory-building | hackernoon-top-story | pixel-face | web-monetization

TLDR Peter Naur's classic paper from 1985 anticipated many of the concepts that are in common use in the industry today. Naur was a Danish scientist, winner of a Turing Award (equivalent to the Nobel Prize in computing) He took part in the development of Algol 60 and helped create the syntax model BNF that all programming languages use to define their grammar. The paper presents novel ideas for the time, then taken up by the agile manifesto placing humanistic values of knowledge acquisition over the Taylorist vision of software building.via the TL;DR App
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Written by mcsee | I’m a sr software engineer specialized in Clean Code, Design and TDD Book "Clean Code Cookbook" 500+ articles written
Published by HackerNoon on 2020/09/09
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