Ruth — of systems & design
@RuthMalan@mastodon.social
"Programming is rather a test of understanding. In this respect it is like writing; often when we think we understand something and attempt to write about it, our very act of composition reveals our lack of understanding even to ourselves." [..]
"One programs, just as one writes, not because one understands, but in order to come to understand. "
-- Joseph Weizenbaum, Computer Power and Human Reason
highlighted in https://nex-3.com/blog/computer-power-and-human-reason/ by @nex3
via @samir 🙏
House of Nettles
I probably should have read Computer Power and Human Reason years ago, when all this hype really started getting going. Honestly I should probably have read it in college when I was first getting into programming! But the next best time is now, so I borrowed: my mom's inscribed copy a few months ago (which to be fair she has also never read) and got started. A lot of the first few chapters is fair