Apropos of the Asimov's remarks, I find it rather sad that a literature major is completely ignoring that literature can only exist in a cultural context. Sans

Apropos of the Asimov's remarks, I find it rather sad that a literature major is completely ignoring that literature can only exist in a cultural context. Sans culture, written text is just that: written text, and there can be no "literature". And given that literature is 'machine code' for the 'psychological machine' of the Human 'reader', it should have been clear to OP from day 1 that if there is such a thing as "software as literature" it must be 'read' from the pov of Machine, SICP gods' notwithstanding. [edit]