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Jul 19, 2020 1 min read notes

Note about the death of the author

Another good reason to begin documenting your Theory of The Program: it’s a way to combat the death of the author. If you have explicitly written down the intentions of some software, and what it assumed, then others cannot add assumptions onto you in the future. You are also forced into honesty about what you initially considered and how you perceived the world. (From reading ferd.ca’s thoughts on language and inclusiveness)

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