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Quote: a program is an elaborate formulae for some formal system; made concrete by a computer
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Well, when all is said and done, the … manipulations. … [p. 1401] The program is an abstract symbol manipulator … So, we have to design abstract symbol manipulators. … They look like programs or--to use somewhat more … We construct our mechanical symbol manipulators by means … Google-1 Google-2
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Quote: computers are for manipulating symbols
Topic: programming as mathematics (27 items)
Topic: what is a computer (62 items)