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Re:Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974) by kazinator on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:29AM (#10894960)
My comment doesn't assert that programming is always art.

Slathering paint onto a surface isn't always art.

Big Oh has to do with large N.

"If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways." --- Epigram 5, Alan Perlis

"For every polynomial-time algorithm you have, there is an exponential algorithm that I would rather run." -- Alan Perlis

"Don't do things that scale" -- P. Graham

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Re:Knuth: Computer Programming as an Art (1974) by crimsonalucard on Wednesday January 13, 2016 @10:47AM (#10895117)
True. My mistake. I was mostly referring to this statement:

>Concept + skillful rendering = art

This statement does not fully cover the definition of art.

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