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Theoretical question deal with topics that do not generally have immediate practical uses. Please be careful when using this tag: your question may be more appropriate for the Computer Science Stack Exchange site.

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How has an increase in the complexity of systems affected successive generations of programm...

When I was learning to program, I was also learning computing theory in parallel. … But I noticed if I ever wanted to test out some very basic principle I'd learned in theory, it was always a lot more difficult to get started because so much technology is obscured by things like libraries …
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