Re:Background on Futurist Programming (1994)
by fish2000 on Thursday November 05, 2015 @12:39PM
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q.v. The Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers, 1991 (linked) – based on the Futurist Manifesto, signatories include one Milanese painter, and 5 noteworthy denizens of Silicon Valley…
In the interest of not spoiling I leave it as an exercise to the reader to click through and scroll down
Re:Background on Futurist Programming (1994)
by AnimalMuppet on Thursday November 05, 2015 @01:07PM
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"All volts and no amps", so to speak. Or "All RPM, no MPH". Lots of overheated rhetoric, not much in terms of concrete proposals. Except that they think self-modifying code is just fine.
This seems like the emotional outburst of a bunch of amateurs. These aren't people who have ever had to maintain someone else's "burst of genius".
In the interest of not spoiling I leave it as an exercise to the reader to click through and scroll down
This seems like the emotional outburst of a bunch of amateurs. These aren't people who have ever had to maintain someone else's "burst of genius".