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The Art, Science, and Engineering of Programming

  • Programs are liminal artefacts.
  • Programming languages, in contrast to natural ones, are invented or designed. They are, thus, artefacts. They entail the use of notation as symbols. As we will see, a programming language is actually a set of symbol structures and, being independent of physical computers, are abstract in exactly the same sense that algorithms are abstract. We thus have the curious situation that while programs written in such languages are liminal, the languages of programming themselves are abstract.

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