Quote: programming is inhumanly hard; because text strings are a poor representation for programs

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Programming is inhumanly hard. It stretches our mental … Programming does not need to be so hard. … A major reason that programming is so hard … to create arbitrary computer-based media, free of the … [p. 506] Subtext is an experiment to develop a … is the same thing as its execution. … This medium is based upon a single unifying … [p. 517] Programming becomes more akin to using a …   Google-1   Google-2

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Quote: use copying to make programming more like a spreadsheet than a keypunch; representation = execution; free of the limits of paper

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