As Willis Ware argued in a 1965 editorial in the trade journal Datamation, “It is clear that only a part—perhaps a small part, at that—of the programming process is involved with actually using a language for writing routines.” And since the rest of the work involved required “intellectual activity, mathematical investigation [and] discussions between people,” Ware maintained, there was no easy fix to the programming problem. “All the programming language improvement in the world will not shorten the intellectual activity, the thinking, the analysis, that is inherent in the programming
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