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Re:Source Code Typography by kruhft on Friday May 17, 2013 @01:18PM (#5725569)
> "Source code should be written to be understood by people."

This viewpoint is described well in the Preface to the First Edition of Structure and Interpretation of Computer programs, 2nd paragraph:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-7.html

I would suggest reading the whole Preface. It's quite an inspirational work for this field.

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Re:Source Code Typography by Fa773NM0nK on Friday May 17, 2013 @01:32PM (#5725676)
"The source of the exhilaration associated with computer programming is the continual unfolding within the mind and on the computer of mechanisms expressed as programs and the explosion of perception they generate. If art interprets our dreams, the computer executes them in the guise of programs!"

Enjoyed it! Thanks!

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Re:Source Code Typography by kruhft on Friday May 17, 2013 @01:22PM (#5725598)
I apologize, the Foreward is the inspirational work I was speaking of:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-5.html

Not that the contents of the Preface should be ignored :)

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Re:Source Code Typography by Fa773NM0nK on Friday May 17, 2013 @01:24PM (#5725615)
Cool! I'll surely give it a read!
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