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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by booleandilemma on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @04:48PM (#42955707)
There is a class of people who refuse to see computer programming as an art.

They try to shoehorn it into being an engineering discipline and comparing it to authoring a book (something you can't give timelines on or T-Shirt size) probably horrifies them.

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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by tremon on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:04PM (#42955940)
Ah, the joys of overloading. Do you mean "art" as the high-brow stuff we see in galleries and are produced in volumes of dozens per artist-years? Or do you mean "art" as the more common stuff that's produced by artisans are the rate of dozens per week? Because to me it's more the latter -- I'm an artisan, not an artist.
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Re:Software development topics I've changed my mind on after... by booleandilemma on Wednesday February 05, 2025 @05:12PM (#42956043)
Why not both?
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