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> Code structuring and design is art No, it's applied mathematics. You could argue that mathematics are "art" but then you would need a really wide and probabl
by snakeanus 9y ago
> Code structuring and design is art
No, it's applied mathematics. You could argue that mathematics are "art" but then you would need a really wide and probably useless definition of "art" as almost everything would be art.
- clentaminator 9y agoI see this a lot and never quite understand it. Code structuring to me seems more like a craft, something that is improved through experience and wisdom and not abstract rules.
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- JadeNB 9y ago> You could argue that mathematics are "art" but then you would need a really wide and probably useless definition of "art" as almost everything would be art. I don't think that everyone (maybe not even every mathematician) would call math an art, but I think that it can be done without doing undue violence to the term. For me, what makes mathematics an art is its capability for creating and exploring unusual, surprising, sometimes delightful patterns, in visual and other senses of the term. I'm not sure I'd call that a definition of 'art', but I think that it's not so broad as to be meaningless. (A quick Google for "math is art" turns up many other (probably better) arguments along the same theme. Here's one: https://hackernoon.com/mathematics-is-art-all-the-mathematicians-say-so-d0d569f89976 https://hackernoon.com/mathematics-is-art-all-the-mathematic... .)