OT: Crazy Programming

[jmdeschamps]

Tim Roberts <timr at probo.com> wrote in message news:<ht91eus6861nu2am7164l8ui9925rmu5sn at 4ax.com>...
> paul at boddie.net (Paul Boddie) wrote:
> 
> ...
> >This is one thing I strongly dislike about the "Perl attitude" to
> >programming, along with the "coding is an art not a science" viewpoint
> >and the "code is poetry" school of thought. Programming and coding are
> >(or should mostly be) sciences or engineering practices which we
> >should strive to get right every time - 
> >...
> This is exactly right, and it is an important point.  As long as programs
> continue to be essentially "hand-crafted", we will never be able to build
> reliable large systems.  Only when programming ceases to be art and moves
> into the realm of engineering -- like building a bridge or a building --
> will we get the reliability that we really need in order to create the
> large systems that the twenty-first century demands.

Why should coding not be an art? or Poetry? while developing
engineering virtues!
But programming is not building bridges or buildings; in its very
essence, its the realm of whatever is within the outer limits of human
creativity, whatever that is! And that is both art and science, and so
many other things beside.

Happy programming ! 
end quote : "... to infinity, and beyond !"
--
Jean-Marc
Cegep du vieux-montreal