To me programming is more than an important practical art. It is also a gigantic undertaking in the foundations of knowledge.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Hopper elevates programming to a foundational art of knowledge.
- In plain terms
- Programming is not just practical, it is a major intellectual task.
- What can you take from it?
- Treat programming as a serious intellectual pursuit.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Why does programming matter to you?
- How is programming like art?
Another view
Not all programming work rises to the level of foundational art.
More from Grace Hopper
From then on, when anything went wrong with a computer, we said it had bugs in it.
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