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On the other hand the sculptor has considered the type of clay, the quantity, the tools she'd need to use to carve away those bits, and understands enough about
by sidlls 7y ago
On the other hand the sculptor has considered the type of clay, the quantity, the tools she'd need to use to carve away those bits, and understands enough about what she wants to create to know what bits to carve away first.
Programming may not be (all) math, but it's not art, either.
- hutzlibu 7y ago"Programming may not be (all) math, but it's not art, either." Huh? Maybe the kind of common 8-5 office programming around buisness logic is not, but to design any bigger project is definitely art.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoMath can be considered an art, though not a fine art. Programming by either extension is an art (though again, not a fine art). https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_art https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mathematics_and_art
- j88439h84 7y agoI don't see why it couldn't be a fine art.
- seanmcdirmid 7y agoPerhaps it could be practiced as part of a fine art, but like carpentry, programming itself isn’t.
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