{"id":25202,"date":"2016-02-29T09:51:19","date_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/?p=25202"},"modified":"2016-02-29T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T07:51:19","slug":"code-is-poetry-but-not-literature","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2016\/02\/29\/code-is-poetry-but-not-literature\/","title":{"rendered":"Code is poetry. But not literature."},"content":{"rendered":"\n

WordPress<\/a> has been known, among other things, for coining the phrase<\/a> “code is poetry”. \u00a0It’s used in the footer of their website as well as quite a bit around the web. \u00a0This goes along with Donald Knuth paradigm of Literate Programming<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Turns out, some people disagree. \u00a0Most recently,\u00a0Peter Seibel, the author of “Coders at Work” book of interviews, wrote this blog<\/a> post titled “Code is not literature”.<\/p>\n

It was sometime after that presentation that I finally realized the obvious: code is not literature. We don\u2019t read code, we decode<\/em>it. We examine it. A piece of code is not literature; it is a specimen.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

It’s an interesting read, filled with quotes and references to some of the smartest people in IT and Computer Science.<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

WordPress has been known, among other things, for coining the phrase “code is poetry”. \u00a0It’s used in the footer of their website as well as quite a bit around the web. \u00a0This goes along with Donald Knuth paradigm of Literate Programming. Turns out, some people disagree. \u00a0Most recently,\u00a0Peter Seibel, the author of “Coders at Work” … Continue reading Code is poetry. But not literature.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"Code is poetry. 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