Comments on: Programming with your nose http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2007/07/04/programming-with-your-nose/ Contextual Chameleon Sat, 17 Jul 2010 16:53:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: Håkan Reis http://www.hedgate.net/articles/2007/07/04/programming-with-your-nose/comment-page-1/#comment-4099 Håkan Reis Fri, 13 Feb 2009 14:36:27 +0000 #comment-4099 I like the nose metaphor but there is one thing that I have to argue around and that is calling programming an art As well as calling creating a blended whiskey art. None of those actions are anywhere close to art in my opinion. Art is the act of creating a piece that will stand by it self. It can be bold, daring, whatever. But any work of art does not have to have any purpose, it can even work against all accepted rules of art. I would instead call programming a craft, you need experience and skills to be good at it. You have rules to follow as the work have a purpose. If you are not accepting to the boundaries or the purpose of what you are creating. Your work, no matter how elegant or beautiful, will be a waste. I like the nose metaphor but there is one thing that I have to argue around and that is calling programming an art As well as calling creating a blended whiskey art. None of those actions are anywhere close to art in my opinion.

Art is the act of creating a piece that will stand by it self. It can be bold, daring, whatever. But any work of art does not have to have any purpose, it can even work against all accepted rules of art.

I would instead call programming a craft, you need experience and skills to be good at it. You have rules to follow as the work have a purpose. If you are not accepting to the boundaries or the purpose of what you are creating. Your work, no matter how elegant or beautiful, will be a waste.

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