HI Rob & all,
In regards to the purity of the activity, one can understand the
'programming is ust programming' notion, but it gets interesting when
intentions and what the speciifc programming is for, as why do the
programming in the first place. To be honest I find hard to disagree
with anyone, mainly because I think that means many different things to
most people...
marc
Quoting Ken Turner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
programming is - I agree just programming.
Historically it's mathematics or electrical engineering. I find
"computer science" far too grand a name. It's just hacking. It's
certainly not art, art is not functional and code cannot be faked.
Societies see themselves in terms of their enabling technologies (see
Bolter's "Turing's Man"). Our enabling technology is computing
machinery. So artists will quite naturally wonder whether code is art
and art is code, and writers will get some mileage from this.
- Rob.
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