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I don't know this book in particular, but I know the author from their writing about "Intellectual Control", which is extremely insightful:

https://www.georgefairbanks.com/ieee-software-v37-n3-may-202...

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Good read. Thanks for sharing.

I feel that this article goes really well with it.

https://johnwhiles.com/posts/programming-as-theory

Some folks read Peter Naur's Programming as Theory Building [1] and become zealots. I'm that kind of person. His ideas are woven through my recent talks [2]. Via years of essays, I've been building to a vision of how to build software that I'm calling Continuous Design that's partly stitched together in this overview [3].

[1] Gwern on Peter Naur's Programming as Theory Building, which includes Naur's essay and related comments. https://gwern.net/doc/philosophy/epistemology/index#naur-198...

[2] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLRqKmfi2Jh3uoMnZdaWmC...

[3] Continuous Design, https://www.georgefairbanks.com/ieee-continuous-design/

Validation of highest order! Thank you for the reply. I finally read the full original text of Programming as Theory Building.

Thanks for your writing as well. As the OP said, the Intellectual Control essay is extremely insightful.

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