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While the difficulty of and controversities over defining what "art" means are proverbial: No, in full generality it's not - that's pretentious bullshit fancie
by brazzy 13y ago
While the difficulty of and controversities over defining what "art" means are proverbial:
No, in full generality it's not - that's pretentious bullshit fancied by amateurs who want to cram as much meaning as possible into what they do.
Like painting, pottery, or photography, programming can be used to do art, but most of the time (99.9%+) it's just a mix of craft and industrial design, done to achieve a practical goal.
- tomphoolery 13y agoIn my opinion, art is when you create things that have no actual use or value, but are there simply because they express you as a person. Since we almost never do this with programming, I don't believe it can be considered an art as practiced by most programmers. That's not to say you can't use it as art, though! Any medium can be used to express art, because art is flowing out of you constantly. Art and humanities should not be separate classifications. Art is humanity.