End of software? No

What happened to software? Why is there so few creative software (2010)? Are we at the end of software? What are the forces which led to this situation, looking like a bit step backward to the epoch of non-programmable accounting machines? Is there a way out of this situation? Yes, and a very simple one: make good software. With invention. Developing models and abstractions. It is difficult but absolutely possible. It this re-start of software I wish to explore here in this blog. Welcome

sexta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2011

coding isn’t fun if all you can do is call things out of a library (Knuth)

"Today, I mostly paste libraries together" in Whatever happened to programming?

Is this the problem with today programming? Or are the libraries too dull? dumb? Low-level? Insuficient abstraction?

Think of the very different concept of Unix small programs put together, one after the other, to "treat" data. See next post,Literate Programming versus Unix shell (?)

End of software? No

sexta-feira, 23 de dezembro de 2011

coding isn’t fun if all you can do is call things out of a library (Knuth)

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