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amw-zero on Aug 26, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: Programming as Theory Building (1985) [pdf]

I think you should be able to read a 9 page paper. But here is a summary: https://ratfactor.com/papers/naur1.

0x445442 on Aug 26, 2023 [–]

Thanks for the link. I really like the bit that expands on the notion that premature optimization is not limited to run time optimizations but to, perhaps more so, abstraction optimizations.

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