On Mon, 21 Nov 2011 02:21:31 -0500
Sean Conner <spc at conman.org> wrote:
Have you tried writing a novel? Even writing 50,000
fictional words is
tough (ba dum dum!).
It is as tough as writing a programm. Though, I don't
write fictional
stories, but papers about technical things. At the moment I am
developing a concept of a communication infrastructure at work. (BTW: I
write it up in LaTeX...) It's prose but wiriting this prose "feels" for
me about the same as writing programm code. You have to envision,
analyze, abstract and deduce. You need to sort your thoughts and
express them. It is not that different from writing a novel. It is
harder as wirting code in a programming language because there is no
compiler / interpreter that checks for concistency. But that is a
mechanical problem. The problem of developing a vision and formulate it
in words is the same. Be they words of a human language or the idiomes
of a programming language. That is why programing is an art like
literature or composing music or...
It would be interresting to see literate programming used for the thing
I am working on. It touches three big software systems with dozends of
components each and a line count in the millions, developed by about 30
engineers. How would you express modules and interfaces in literate
programming, so that many people can work on several different modules
at the same time?
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