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hermeneutic

this interpreter doesn't perform "interpretations" in a hermeneutic sense of semantic text explication

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software engineering is simultaneously social engineering

If the interrupt teaches us anything about software, it is that software is in many cases only as effective as the people who use it, those mondeterministic machines with their complex, non-reproducible behaviors, those "others" on whom it relies--can it really control such beasts? To understand so…

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liminal

we might describe the operational space of software in the context of a user at a desktop system as having a liminal boundary

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