[HN Gopher] Programming and Writing ___________________________________________________________________ Programming and Writing Author : revorad Score : 19 points Date : 2022-08-11 10:56 UTC (2 days ago) (HTM) web link (antirez.com) (TXT) w3m dump (antirez.com) | wellpast wrote: | Programming may be related to one half of fiction writing - the | structural and logical facets. There is a whole other half of | emotional authenticity and character building that make it far | broader and more difficult than programming. | | That is, if you want an effective product. | | The thing is in programming there is no such "Mom" whose approval | will validate the program. It will either run and do it's job or | not. Whereas in writing, you will at least always have your | mother in the audience that will say "Sure sweety That's a novel" | bigcat12345678 wrote: | The mom is not too different from one's wife who does not code, | but always will look at the husband's poorly written code in | spare time with awe and love. | | Programming is just writing... No difference whatsoever... | keyle wrote: | Note, that post is over a year old and it looks like the book is | available here | | http://antirez.com/news/136 | | I also just realised the name was familiar, it's the redis guy | that moved on. ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-08-13 23:00 UTC)