YES, IT APPEARS THAT WE NEEDED TO INVENT PROGRAMMING IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE PROBL

YES, IT APPEARS THAT WE NEEDED TO INVENT PROGRAMMING IN ORDER TO SOLVE THE PROBLEM OF THE SOCIAL SCIENCES.

—“Such clarity! Why has it taken this long for man to state this? Did we really need computers to tell truth this lucidly?”— Frank Leibowitz

Excellent Question

Actually, we needed strictly constructed law, and we discovered to strictly constructed programming first – it seems – by accident.

The difference is that in the discipline of programming, the test of computability is stricter than in the discipline of law’s test of existential possibility.

And that the range of problems we test for with computability is broader than the range of programs we test with law.

-Curt Doolittle