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This is the six-page version of [165]<\/a>. I think it is also the first place I have mentioned the Whorfian syndrome in print. It is structured around a lovely simple example in which an important hardware protocol is derived from a trivial specification by substituting an expression for the specification’s variable. This example is supporting evidence for the thesis of [168]<\/a> that computation should be described with mathematics. (Substitution of an expression for a variable is an elementary operation of mathematics, but is meaningless in a programming language.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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