The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking — with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions — into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.
The hard part has always been – and likely will continue to be for many years to come – knowing exactly what to ask for.
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