[Edu-sig] Question ?

[Catherine Letondal]

On Tue, Apr 20, 2004 at 03:08:21AM -0400, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
> > On Sat, Apr 17, 2004 at 08:44:54AM -0400, Jason Cunliffe wrote:
> > > What is the opposite of programming?
> >
> > Your question implies that we have a definition of programming! ;-)
> 
> Yes well of course that was largely my  purpose!
> ... And  to see how such an inverted question might revealing and perhaps
> more effective :-)
> 

About a definition of programming:
Alan F. Blackwell (2002), What is programming? 
Proceedings of PPIG 2002 (Psychology of Programming Interest Group
Workshop), pp 204-218.
http://www.ppig.org/papers/14th-blackwell.pdf


> An immediate follow-up I was going to ask:
> 
> a. [What is the opposite of programming?]
> b. Is there / can there be such a thing?
> 

My personal opinion is that there is no such a thing - programming -
although everyone in this group "knows" what programming "is". It's polysemic!
(Nietzsche said that only things that have no history can be defined :-))


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Catherine Letondal -- Pasteur Institute Computing Center