Beautiful Programs
If you’ve been reading Beautiful Code, and I hope you have, you should also read Donald Knuth’s Computer Programming as an Art. It actually makes you feel better about writing all that code and always trying to get it right.
The possibility of writing beautiful programs, even in assembly language, is what got me hooked on programming in the first place.
Interestingly this was the topic of Dave Thomas’ keynote here at RailsConf Europe. Rob Dempsey has a nice little writeup of it on his site.
As a musician and a programmer I’m starting to think that this may be the reason I’m comfortable writing software - because I’m comfortable making art.
Anthony Eden
17 Sep 07 at 11:55 pm