Re: Looking for a Rich Hickey quotation

2014-03-01 Thread Kashyap CK
Thank you so much, Regards, Kashyap On Saturday, March 1, 2014 4:27:05 PM UTC+5:30, t x wrote: > > 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

Re: Looking for a Rich Hickey quotation

2014-03-01 Thread t x
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 wrote: > Hi, > In one of the talks, Rich Hickey had mentioned something to the effect - > > "Programs are

Looking for a Rich Hickey quotation

2014-03-01 Thread Kashyap CK
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 ha