Death of Computer Languages, the Birth of Intentional Programming (1995) [pdf]

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zabzonk · 3h ago

> The purpose of a language is to encode the programmers’ contributions

Where did this "contribution" stuff come from? Does anyone know here it originated (is this the origin)? It even seems that now what we used to be known as programmers are simply "contributors", which I hate.

And for me, the purpose of a computer language is to tell the machine what I want it to do, possibly somewhat indirectly.

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Death of Computer Languages, the Birth of Intentional Programming (1995) [pdf]

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