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Re: How to donate a clue to a lawyer?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ben Laurie)
Mon May 10 00:07:43 1999
Date: Sun, 09 May 1999 20:13:53 +0100
From: Ben Laurie <ben@algroup.co.uk>
To: EKR <ekr@rtfm.com>
Cc: David Honig <honig@sprynet.com>, Carl Ellison <cme@acm.org>,
"Jay D. Dyson" <jdyson@techreports.jpl.nasa.gov>,
Cryptography List <cryptography@c2.net>
EKR wrote:
> If your purpose in using code is to communicate with other
> humans, what you want to communicate is intention with only
> the barest amount of procedure. However, in reality programs
> are almost all procedure with the barest amount of structure
> to attempt to communicate intention to humans who need to
> work on it.
Don't get it. In a programming context, what is the difference between
intention and procedure?
Cheers,
Ben.
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