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You’re right, and I could have been less pithy and perhaps made my point a bit more clear. Software development is primary an activity concerned with creating
by williamcotton 3y ago
You’re right, and I could have been less pithy and perhaps made my point a bit more clear.
Software development is primary an activity concerned with creating useful products. It’s this usefulness that in contrast with art. Commercial art is useful. Painting for its own sake is not! Art for art’s sake, as they say!
- stavros 3y agoYes, but, in my opinion, there's an inverse correlation between how useful something is, and how much it is art. This isn't a hard rule, and what is and isn't art is a huge discussion that no two people can agree on, but I've found it useful as a general guideline.
- williamcotton 3y agoI agree completely!