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Programming as an art (Part III)

2009-12-06 82 words 1 min read

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Computer programming as an art

By Donald Knuth, 1974

(Read parts I, and II)

Science and art

Our discussion indicates that computer programming is by now both a science and an art, and that the two aspects nicely complement each other. Apparently most authors who examine such a question come to this same conclusion, that their subject is both a science and an art, whatever their subject is
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Excerpt from Donald Knuth’s 1974 Turing Award lecture, Computer Programming as an Art.

Science and art

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