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mgummelt
on March 21, 2021
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Outgrowing Software
"We need to decide if software is a car to be driven or an essay to be written." - Alan Kay
He goes on, of course, to argue that the car analogy is the wrong one.
lifeisstillgood
on March 21, 2021
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Oh wow - do you have a reference to the original?
mgummelt
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http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1984001_comp_soft.pdf
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He goes on, of course, to argue that the car analogy is the wrong one.