May 17
But you, sir, are no painter. And while you hack away at your terminal, or ride your homemade Segway, we Painters Brisbane and musicians are going to be right over here with all the wine, hash, and hot chicks. Start with purpose. With the exception of art software projects (which I don’t believe Graham has in mind here) all computer programs are designed to accomplish some kind of task. Even the most elegant of computer programs, in order to be considered a program, has to compile and run [ ]. So just like mechanical engineers and architects, computer programmers create artifacts that have to stand up to an objective reality. No one cares how pretty the code is if the program won’t work..
