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Re:Programming is not a craft by elchief on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:03PM (#4906134)
T-12 hours before "Programming is a craft" post on HN
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Re:Programming is not a craft by Mindless2112 on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:36PM (#4906356)
That timer is long expired. This article (which uses "craft" as a synonym for "art") directly opposes Knuth's [1] from 1974 -- I'll let you guess which one carries more weight.

[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html

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Re:Programming is not a craft by pyre on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:25PM (#4906274)
Maybe it should have just been titled "Is programming a craft?" ;)
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Re:Programming is not a craft by jkonowitch on Tuesday December 11, 2012 @02:16PM (#4906205)
Hilarious.
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