The Humble Programmer
- Kind
- Journal Article
- Date
- 1972
- Publisher
- ACM Turing Lecture
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Computer Programmers Master 10 Orders of Complexity
In computer programming our basic building block has an associated time grain of less than a microsecond, but our program may take hours of computation time. I do not know of any other technology covering a ratio of 10^10 or more: the computer, by virtue of its fantastic speed, seems to be the first to provide us with…