In the last blog, I wrote a few things that software is for:

• putting people on the moon
• safely deploying airbags
• making my bank account add up

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Once a month or so, this idea comes rambling out of the programming community1: Software is prose. It is written to communicate ideas to others, it has the interesting side effect that it can be transformed into something a computer can execute. - Chet Hendrickson This sounds nice on paper. It makes for a good conference talk about how to structure software, how to design programming languages, and how to collaborate.