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Metaphors we compute by

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Code is a story that explains how to solve a particular problem.

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        cover image Communications of the ACM
        Communications of the ACM  Volume 60, Issue 10
        October 2017
        90 pages
        ISSN:0001-0782
        EISSN:1557-7317
        DOI:10.1145/3144574
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