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Re:Holding a program in one's head by Afton on Thursday August 23, 2007 @10:54PM (#46003)
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.

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