Computing Versus Human Thinking.

The article discusses computing versus human thinking. In the article, the author works to develop a new form of description that continues the work of John Backus. The article discusses human knowing as it applies to computer programming. The author concludes that computing presents a form of descr...

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Publicado en:Communications of the ACM Vol. 50; no. 1; pp. 85 - 95
Autor principal: Naur, Peter
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Association for Computing Machinery Jan2007
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