Comments on: What is software development? Lets be Poets! http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806 Ed Taekema's Blog Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:21:08 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Ed Taekema http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-47461 Ed Taekema Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:26:40 +0000 http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806#comment-47461 <a href="#comment-47459" rel="nofollow">@Greg Lloyd</a> - Seeing code as poetic has the additional advantage that if it is good, we, the authors, don't mind going back and reading it. Helps with maintenance if the code is not tortuous ... even if we are the authors and maintainers ...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('47461','Ed Taekema'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('47461','Ed Taekema','<a href=\"#comment-47459\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Greg Lloyd<\/a> -\nSeeing code as poetic has the additional advantage that if it is good, we, the authors, don\'t mind going back and reading it. Helps with maintenance if the code is not tortuous ... even if we are the authors and maintainers ...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Greg Lloyd -
Seeing code as poetic has the additional advantage that if it is good, we, the authors, don’t mind going back and reading it. Helps with maintenance if the code is not tortuous … even if we are the authors and maintainers …
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]]> By: Ed Taekema http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-47460 Ed Taekema Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:25:01 +0000 http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806#comment-47460 <a href="#comment-47457" rel="nofollow">@Mike Lowe</a> - Software Poetry is really good ... I especially like how you connected the limitations that poetic form puts on expression programming language structure. I think its a real good point.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('47460','Ed Taekema'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('47460','Ed Taekema','<a href=\"#comment-47457\" rel=\"nofollow\">@Mike Lowe<\/a> -\nSoftware Poetry is really good ... I especially like how you connected the limitations that poetic form puts on expression programming language structure. I think its a real good point.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> @Mike Lowe -
Software Poetry is really good … I especially like how you connected the limitations that poetic form puts on expression programming language structure. I think its a real good point.
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]]> By: Greg Lloyd http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-47459 Greg Lloyd Thu, 04 Dec 2008 15:00:28 +0000 http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806#comment-47459 Good point. I've called software "executable prose", but "executable poetry" has a better ring! Think of software as a form of literature for a reader who does exactly what you write - nothing more, nothing less - as well as a bunch of human readers and critics whose attention can easily wander...<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('47459','Greg Lloyd'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('47459','Greg Lloyd','Good point. I\'ve called software \"executable prose\", but \"executable poetry\" has a better ring! Think of software as a form of literature for a reader who does exactly what you write - nothing more, nothing less - as well as a bunch of human readers and critics whose attention can easily wander...'); return false;">Quote</a></div> Good point. I’ve called software “executable prose”, but “executable poetry” has a better ring! Think of software as a form of literature for a reader who does exactly what you write – nothing more, nothing less – as well as a bunch of human readers and critics whose attention can easily wander…
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]]> By: Mike Lowe http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806&cpage=1#comment-47457 Mike Lowe Thu, 04 Dec 2008 13:36:43 +0000 http://www.fishandcross.com/blog/?p=806#comment-47457 I made that comment. Thanks for the noticing, there didn't seem to be any positive feedback in the other comments for an idea I've really liked for a long time.<div class="comment-remix-meta"><a href="#" class="replyto" onclick="replyto('47457','Mike Lowe'); return false;">Reply</a> - <a href="#" class="quote" onclick="quote('47457','Mike Lowe','I made that comment. Thanks for the noticing, there didn\'t seem to be any positive feedback in the other comments for an idea I\'ve really liked for a long time.'); return false;">Quote</a></div> I made that comment. Thanks for the noticing, there didn’t seem to be any positive feedback in the other comments for an idea I’ve really liked for a long time.
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