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A comment on Ask HN: What Are the Masterworks of Software?.

Re:Ask HN: What Are the Masterworks of Software? by beaconstudios on Saturday September 25, 2021 @07:49PM (#28657135)
The metaphor doesn't translate because programming is not an art.

The closest equivalent, I would say, would be learning the simple elegance of algorithms and data structures like quicksort or the linked list.

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Re:Ask HN: What Are the Masterworks of Software? by arthuryuan15 on Sunday September 26, 2021 @11:07AM (#28661436)
Do you think it's too easy, like basic things?
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Re:Ask HN: What Are the Masterworks of Software? by beaconstudios on Sunday September 26, 2021 @11:12AM (#28661474)
If you wanted to go to the other extreme I'd say something like dwarf fortress or the Linux project, the cathedrals of software engineering.
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