Thus, programs must be written for people to read, and only incidentally for machines to execute. -- http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/front/node3.html
On Sat, Mar 1, 2014 at 2:48 AM, Kashyap CK <ckkash...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > In one of the talks, Rich Hickey had mentioned something to the effect - > > "Programs are meant to state the intention of your computation to other > programmers/humans - as opposed to instructions for a machine" > > He was quoting someone else actually (perhaps Knuth). I just cant seem to > get my hands on that video. Could someone please remind me what that > quotation was? > > Regards, > Kashyap > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "Clojure" group. > To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com > Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your > first post. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Clojure" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com Note that posts from new members are moderated - please be patient with your first post. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
