[codecraft] Weekend Reading: Can Programming Be Liberated, Period

[Philip Durbin]

"Whenever we feel as if we have given the system enough instructions and
guidelines, we set it free to start behaving."

Just don't give it enormous guns when you're doing a demo like in Robocop.
On Jul 16, 2015 6:17 PM, "Philip Durbin" <philipdurbin at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool, I'll try to check it out. I also found a PDF version that doesn't
> require signup to download at
> http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers/LiberatingProgramming.pdf
> via http://www.wisdom.weizmann.ac.il/~dharel/papers.html
>
> On Thu, Jul 16, 2015 at 5:11 PM, Michael Bar-Sinai <
> mich.barsinai at icloud.com> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Here's a 2008 classic about programming in general. There were a few "Can
>> Programming be Liberated from XXX" papers, really asking what are the
>> things the bind programming so much that we don't even notice them. David
>> Harel (proper disclosure: he's on my PhD committee) looks into what it
>> would take to librate programming not just from various XXXs, but
>> completely, and defines the "three straitjackets of programming".
>>
>> Plus, in today's world of over-opinionated flamewar hyperboles, you've
>> got to like a paper stating that "the message here is deintely “maybe we
>> should be thinking about thhs some more,” not “if you just do it my way
>> you’ll be fine."
>>
>> http://www.academia.edu/2839009/Can_Programming_Be_Liberated_Period
>>
>>
>> -- Michael
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