21 APR 2011 by ideonexus
Jamie Zawinski on Different Kinds of Programming
There's obviously different kinds of programming. Without people who are not like me none of this would exist. But I've always seen much more in common with writing prose than math. It feels like you're writing a story and you're trying to express a concept to a very dumb person-the computer—who has a limited vocabulary. You've got this concept you want to express and limited tools to express it with. What words do you use and what does your I thing.Folksonomies: programming computer science
Folksonomies: programming computer science
Programming has much in common with prose.