Note: formalism tries to make programs tightly structured, but it just isn't so; programs are loosely structured because applications are loosely structured

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a theme is that programs are loosely structured -- even inherently so -- because of the many ways of doing something and because applications are loosely structured. Formalism tries to make programs tightly structured, but it just isn't so.   Google-1   Google-2

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