Understanding of source code in language: Contribution of philosophical hermeneutics to the critical code studies.
The article discusses the attempt to understand a source code under the conception of philosophical hermeneutics guided by language. Based on a confrontation between H.-G. Gadamer's and Paul Ricoeur's philosophy, our main goal would be searching for the essence of the source code in language. Thus,...
| Published in: | Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 37; no. 2; pp. 307 - 321 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Jun2022
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