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It's not important from an external standpoint, looking at code quality. Like in all the arts, most of it will be bad. That is not the point. The point is from
by eikenberry 2y ago
It's not important from an external standpoint, looking at code quality. Like in all the arts, most of it will be bad. That is not the point. The point is from the developers perspective as a medium. To put it another way, you can produce bad art in any medium but some mediums seem more conducive to creating good art.
- cess11 2y agoMaybe. You probably don't want to base your web development studio on colorForth for quite a few reasons but I'm not so sure artistic reasons are relatively important. You seem to think that organisational factors, like management, profitability, market influences and whatnot are less important than the conduciveness of the tooling to create good art. Why is this?
- eikenberry 2y agoIMO they are on different dimensions, orthogonal if you will. The medium will often be dictated by outside demands, but when talking about mediums themselves and the different aspects of that medium can take place without taking those into account. Just like you could discuss the differences between oil paints and acrylics without taking into account any specific work... of course if you flip that, talking acrylic or oil for a specific work, then it would matter.
- cess11 2y agoDoesn't answer my question. I'm already aware that you ignore social and other factors.