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jurijmlotman 6458 days AGO
[off topic] could you sometimes put together the best 10 papers on computing / programming that could be meaningful to non-programmers and non-geeks? like InteractionWithComputers linked below, or the great GrowingALanguage. and similar question: if one wanted to learn some programming language, just to get a feel of it, as part of the New Liberal Arts, what would s/he have to learn? and how to proceed?

motz 6461 days AGO
long time favorit: big ball of mud by brian foote and joseph yoder.

mf 6432 days AGO
I would be interested in such a list put together by Mr. L as well.

Two-cultures-bridging stuff that I think matters includes Richard Gabriel (cf. interview here and, of course, Donald Knuth's literate programming paradigm (cf. the original 1983 paper (pdf), more on wikipedia).

Edit: that Gabriel idea of an MFA in Software seems to have peaked around 2002/2003, and there seems to have been some interest by the UIUC, but I can't find anything more recent on it.

Edit (2007-03-28): update re MFA in software
Just got a google alert that led me to some more factoids.
A one-week pilot program with some 15 students ran at UIUC in August 2004.
Instructors: Richard Gabriel, Brian Marick and Ralph Johnson. There's also a 7-minute interview out there with Avi Bryant, who participated (audio stream here).

chris 6460 days AGO
okay! it's going to take a while, tho.

in the meantime, thanks a lot for your contributions, m*s!

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