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Peter Naur's Documentation Pessimism (xrrocha.github.io)
4 points by xrrocha 25 days ago | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Peter Naur argued that programming is theory-building, and that theory cannot be fully captured in documentation. But his pessimism is narrower than supposed. It applies to technical documentation of artifacts, not documentation as a human endeavor. AI doesn't "solve" the problem—but it creates conditions where theory transmission becomes more likely.




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