[NetBehaviour] Is programming an art or a science? Part II.

[marc]

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 <ken at sqallp.freeserve.co.uk>:
>
>> 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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