[Sigia-l] hacking and painting

[Donna M. Fritzsche]

And he is a huge Lisp fan - which speaks to his understanding
of elegance in design.  (or one might say, a poetic understanding of
programming)

I didn't read the whole article but it looks like he brought up some
good points.

Thanks!

Donna

At 12:06 PM -0600 5/6/03, Karl Fast wrote:
>Paul Graham has written a wonderful essay called hacking and
>painting in which he talks about programming as design.
>
>    http://www.paulgraham.com/hp.html
>
>Definitely worth reading.
>
>For those with a technical background I think you'll find his views
>insightful.
>
>For those without a technical background, but basically spend all
>their time designing stuff from programmers to implement, you'll
>gain some insights into what motivates programmers (there are some
>occassional discussions on things like static vs. dynamic typing but
>there isn't much).
>
>And if I'm wrong, then I hope you get something else out of it.
>
>--karl
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