Yo,
Programming paradigms are often quite close to philosophical frameworks.
Ive been looking at this in my PHD, but notions of OO, Encapsulation,
virtualisation and so on have pretty strong paralells in ontology.
Theres even a newish movement in philosophy called
ObjectOrientatedOntology
peas
On 16 March 2011 09:25, alex <alex_at_idoia.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I am looking for references to support the idea behind which the act of programming :
> - help to become and stay conscious of the virtual environment, of its possibilities and of its limits,
> - help to build a "self" as a child would do when starting to talk and communicate with others,
> - help to some other social progress I guess,
>
> If you agree or disagree or would like to bring your own view on the social benefits of programming as a general practice or in a particular context, please do so.
> Trying to tie your thinking to some theoretical references would help me better as I would like to do a paper on the subject and would very much like to quote some ideas from the livecode community if it can be more than just a mere personal feeling.
>
> Thanks for your valuable input.
> Alex
>
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