Type and Metaphor for Computer Programmers.
The duality of computer programs is characterized, on the one hand, by their physical implementations on physical devices, and, on the other, by the conceptual implementations in programmers' minds of the objects making up the computational processes they conceive. We contend that central to program...
| Published in: | Techné: Research in Philosophy & Technology Vol. 21; no. 1; pp. 71 - 106 |
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2017
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