Tag: Wittgenstein

Mental Models, Programming Fictions, and Wittgenstein

This is a follow-up essay to my previous one about Empathy and Debuggers, where I confessed to my preference for empathically understanding the code rather than for line-oriented debugging. Here, I would like to expand that slightly mystic notion of empathic understanding with a more exact o...

Mental Models, Programming Fictions, and Wittgenstein

This is a follow-up essay to my previous one about Empathy and Debuggers, where I confessed to my preference for empathically understanding the code rather than for line-oriented debugging. Here, I would like to expand that slightly mystic notion of empathic understanding with a more exact o...