@acousticmirror @fossandcrafts @cwebber
> .. You have to do basic science on your libraries to see how they work, trying out different inputs and seeing how the code reacts. This is a fundamentally different job.. And why Python..? .. it probably just had a library already implemented for the robotics interface
This, along with "#ProgrammingByPoking" remind of I. A. Richards's mention of an old, misogynist philosopher whose example of incomprehensible acts was "poking the fire from the top."

> The “analysis-by-synthesis” view of SICP — where you build a larger system out of smaller, simple parts — became irrelevant. Nowadays, we do #ProgrammingByPoking.
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5335
#GerrySussman #Scheme #SCIP #ProgrammingEducation #SussmanAndAbelson