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Re:Outgrowing Software by mgummelt on Sunday March 21, 2021 @02:40PM (#26532745)
"We need to decide if software is a car to be driven or an essay to be written." - Alan Kay

He goes on, of course, to argue that the car analogy is the wrong one.

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Re:Outgrowing Software by lifeisstillgood on Sunday March 21, 2021 @05:26PM (#26534243)
Oh wow - do you have a reference to the original?
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Re:Outgrowing Software by mgummelt on Sunday March 21, 2021 @08:06PM (#26535321)
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr1984001_comp_soft.pdf
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