I think the title “Intellectual Production Techniques” should be “Information Production Techniques” or “Knowledge Production Techniques. Programmers are information producers. Hirotaka Yoshioka
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(I overslept on the train on my way to work. I thought about it while I was sleeping.)
- In the case of “knowledge production,” the question “What is knowledge? The question “What is knowledge?” is asked, and the answer is “Knowledge is information focused on results with actions”.
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(Reply)Programmers certainly produce information in the short term, but there is no point in efficiently producing “useless programs,” so from an overhead perspective, the composition is “by producing information in the form of source code, we produce a tool called a program, and that tool makes the customer happy. This is the composition. We are creating a “tool” composed of words and information.
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