Sussman, Programming is fun
15 Sep 2022 - 15 Sep 2022
- Sussman in 1964 or so...
- He's done a lot of things, but always programming, because it's fun.
- NOT coding!
- The real job of programmers is to find the actual implementable specifications (from vague requirements).
- Good poets construct aesthetic mechanisms that produce emotional states (more or less).
- Edgar Allen Poe, The Philosophy of Composition
- Amen, should send him Politics and Pragmatism in Scientific Ontology Construction
- identity and mutation
- Bugs are fun!
- cites Productive Reasoning, Wertheimer (?)