A software developer draws parallels between Peter Naur's 1985 essay on programming theory and James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State," arguing that valuable programming knowledge exists in illegible, undocumentable form that only original team members possess. The author contends that corporations prefer legible, standardized software development processes to maintain control, which conflicts with Naur's theory that effective programming requires internalized knowledge that transcends documentation.
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A software developer draws parallels between Peter Naur's 1985 essay on programming theory and James C. Scott's "Seeing Like a State," arguing that valuable programming knowledge exists in illegible, undocumentable form that only original team members possess. The author contends that corporations prefer legible, standardized software development processes to maintain control, which conflicts with Naur's theory that effective programming requires internalized knowledge that transcends documentation.