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Software is a system of ideas

By Shawn Hartsock (author)

Originally published .

Republished from Thoughts and Ideas. The original writing is preserved; topic and concept suggestions are generated metadata, not part of the original article.

Take a system of ideas, turn it into code, let people interact with it. Software that works is software where everyone’s ideas match and are consistent with a reality that can be represented in the computer. If your ideas don’t match what is in the computer or in the heads of others then there is a bug.

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