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Engineers design and build machines. A car is a machine for traveling; an electronic circuit is a machine for transforming signals; a bridge is a machine for crossing a river. Programmers — “software engineers” — design and build machines too. We call our machines programs or systems.
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Meyer, B. (2013). The industry of pure ideas. In: Touch of Class. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-92145-5_1
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