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Background on Futurist Programming (1994)
- franzb 8y agoAdditional notes: http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/futnotes.html http://www.graficaobscura.com/future/futnotes.html
- ankurdhama 8y agoThere have been so many such "lets make future of programming" initiatives and all of them have failed. That must tell you that something is really wrong with all these initiatives at a very fundamental level.
- taneq 8y agoBecause they're all trying to let people who can't program create programs.
- ankurdhama 8y agoThere are no people "who can't program". There are only those who know how to program and those who don't know to program. Those who don't know can learn to program, just like any skill, by putting focused effort.
- kragen 8y agoIt's unfortunate to see people commenting on this article mischaracterizing it as an attempt to create a "future of programming." You would think that reading the first line of the article, "Futurism is an Italian fine arts movement that was founded in 1909," would prevent such comments. That said, I'm not a big fan of Futurism, although like anyone else, I've felt the urge to "burn our disk packs," and I think that might be healthy.
- ghostbrainalpha 8y agoAre you commenting this in anticipation of MORE commentators that didn't read the article? Right now there is only a single parent comment making the error you describe.
- kragen 8y agoYes, I was commenting to discourage further low-quality comments of that sort.
- samlittlewood 8y agoDespite being one of my favourite parts, I have yet to have the courage to implement the exercise in the notes: "Remove all system files that haven't been accessed in the last 6 months. Ours works fine!"