{"id":116,"date":"2002-12-11T16:16:44","date_gmt":"2002-12-11T21:16:44","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=116"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"the_poetry_of_programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2002\/12\/11\/the_poetry_of_programming\/","title":{"rendered":"The Poetry of Programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sun has an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/java.sun.com\/features\/2002\/11\/gabriel_qa.html?s=04&amp;w=50\">Richard Gabriel<\/a>, who says that software creation is not purely an engineering discipline.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote>What do people do when they&rsquo;re being trained, for example, to get a Master of Fine Arts in poetry? They study great works of poetry. Do we do that in our software engineering disciplines? No. You don&rsquo;t look at the source code for great pieces of software. Or look at the architecture of great pieces of software. You don&rsquo;t look at their design. You don&rsquo;t study the lives of great software designers. So, you don&rsquo;t study the literature of the thing you&rsquo;re trying to build.<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>I think we should.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sun has an interview with Richard Gabriel, who says that software creation is not purely an engineering discipline. What do people do when they&rsquo;re being trained, for example, to get a Master of Fine Arts in poetry? They study great works of poetry. Do we do that in our software engineering disciplines? No. You don&rsquo;t [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}