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I don't like the shakespeare analogy because not every written piece of code is supposed to be a work of art. You wouldn't write an instruction manual like you
by jasonmaydie 9y ago
I don't like the shakespeare analogy because not every written piece of code is supposed to be a work of art. You wouldn't write an instruction manual like you would write Macbeth. Most of the time there's really no value in writing cryptic code
- Miss_Vee22 9y agoYou are saying that programming is the same as an instruction manual? Programming is art. Nearly every objective in programming will have over a million potential implementations. Personality, wisdom, and mood are in every program (obviously there are some Hello World exceptions) just like artistic writing and nothing like an instruction manual. Machine code is an instruction manual compiled by a computer, a program is a piece of art created by humans.
- jasonmaydie 9y agowell no. You can write artistic code, people do that in coding all the time (in programming contests, sample code, your own code etc) but the real goal of writing code is to perform a certain task. The execution of those instructions is what matters, not the style of how the code written. So yea not all code is art.