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August 10, 2005

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Posted by tplambeck at 12:09 PM

If people want things named

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Reminded me of the deeply philosophical question posed by Pang Chen in the Stanford CS department, roughly 20 years ago:

Why must every variable in a program have a name?

[To our credit, Anil and I instantly recognized the importance of this question for the future of Computer Science. But we're still searching for the answer...]

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