“While code is written collectively, it’s a community that’s rarely seen - though often felt. Every comment is an implicit acknowledgement of that community, and of all the careful caretakers who may someday be revisiting your code.”
Continuing reading my book about code, programming and people! A refreshing note by David Cassel: “The stereotype of a lone genius hacking away has become an outdated pop-culture artifact in today’s world of massive coding collaborations.”
A sentence that makes me think about my own relationship with computer, code and programming. 😇👾👩💻
“BASIC made learning to code easy - but for whom?” in The Illusion of empowerment.
“BASIC originated the idea that programming was sth. That just anyone could do. And the echoes of that unexamined assumption perpetuate the pernicious myth today that all you need to succeed in tech is learn how to code.” By Joy Lisi Rankin
Starting to read a new book and the first chapter is about “Error, Failure, and Code Creation” - fells quite similar to my research 👀🫣🤓
Words by John Backus, leader of the group of the FORTRAN programming language.
“You have to generate many ideas and then you have to work very hard only to discover that they don’t work. And you keep doing that over and over until you find one that does work.”
