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What you're responding to (and disagreeing with) is partially a misquote; see the full paper Computer Programming as an Art, which is Knuth's 1974 Turing Award
by svat 8y ago
What you're responding to (and disagreeing with) is partially a misquote; see the full paper Computer Programming as an Art, which is Knuth's 1974 Turing Award lecture. (Available at http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html http://www.paulgraham.com/knuth.html or http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~canf/knuth1974.pdf http://www.cs.bilkent.edu.tr/~canf/knuth1974.pdf and reprinted with some minor corrections as the first chapter of the collection Literate Programming.)
- nemo1618 8y agoThanks, this is really interesting. I had a vague idea that "art" used to mean something different, but I didn't know it was akin to what we now call "engineering." By that definition, programming is unquestionably an art, but I would still argue that it doesn't fit under the more modern definition.