Re:Holding a program in one's head
by brlewis on Thursday August 23, 2007 @02:12PM
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If you have the foundations cold, then you can make a word for each foundational concept, and a syntax for each way the foundational concepts interact. Then you've started the kind of bottom-up programming pg describes.
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Yes, if you writing in forth. I'm less sure that the bottom up approach that forth and lisp allow translates as readily into generalized research.
This is one of the ways in which programming is different from other research. In programming, when I define a term(/function/word), it bloody well means that. In linguistics, if I define a notion, well, whether or not it means anything at all is exactly the point of the research.