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Programming is Like Pudding (Score:1)
Excellent point. Having come from a fine-art background myself I have always been annoyed with these types of comparisons, because they almost always miss the ways in which programming is actually like $something_that_is_not_programming. Especially high level comparisons like this, they always fail once you look at the details. Fact is that programming, like anything you do, can be an aesthetic act if you choose to make it one.
- Stevan
Re:Programming is Like Pudding (Score:1)
Well, maybe the comparison fails when you drill down to details. So be it. They're not the same thing.
But the interesting thing about the comparison is that you keep two thoughts or concepts in your head and then suddenly discover new ideas in one or the other which you didn't think of before.
If that's all you get out of the exercise, that's still plenty.
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