Programming as literature. Was: Python's Lisp heritage

[Lumberjack]

Tim Daneliuk <tundra at tundraware.com> wrote:
> Carl Banks wrote:
>> Computer programming is not science.
> 
> Agreed - it is craft.

Computer programming has all the properties of literature, including 
subjective analysis, the existence of "schools of thought," and genres, 
among other things.

Me, I miss the beat era of programming. The bohemians really knew how to 
code some cool prose man.

"The fact was I had the vision...I think everyone has...what we lack is the 
method." - Jack Kerouac