[onlurking]

There's this seminal paper by Peter Naur called "Programming as Theory Building" that arrived at the exact same conclusion when it comes to programming:

https://gist.github.com/onlurking/fc5c81d18cfce9ff81bc968a7f...

[spiralganglion]

Just in case anyone else misses it — the OP is a blog post about a podcast about this very paper.