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Beautiful software
- edu 19y agoI don´t see why software can be art and solve a problem at the same time. I hate when people sees software only as a tool. Yes, of course it is a tool. But, what is not it? Of course, you can see software as a tool to sell cars. But for me a car is only a tool to go from one place to another! Please, stop being obvious! Everything is a tool, but some tools are beautiful while other not. Antoni Gaudi´s Casa Batlló was built for people to live in, like a lot of buildings. But the Casa Batlló is beatiful, it has an ethereal artistic background that most buildings lack. A report is nothing more than a bunch of text, just like a novel or a poem. But it lacks something that makes a novel or a poem art. Most pieces of software are ugly and not artistic at all, of course. But it does not mean that a certain piece of software could not be art, and beautiful, and clever. And what about demos? They are not tools, but they are beautiful. Usually beatiful in two dimensions: the code and the images and music produced. They are not art?
- wallflower 19y ago+1 for mentioning one of the most visually stimulating apartment buildings in the world. I saw it on a trip to Barcelona and it makes you realize how boring all buildings are designed to be. Have you read "How Buildings Learn" by S. Brand? I think you would like it - premise is the manner in how buildings are constructed influences their growth and ability to change.