On Sun, Dec 20, 2020 at 9:36 PM Chris Angelico <ros...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 21, 2020 at 1:11 PM Julio Di Egidio <ju...@diegidio.name> wrote: > > > Gathering evidence is indeed part of science, and computer science is > > > indeed mathematics, but alas programmering is just a craft and software > > > engineering often ... isn't. > > > > Programming is a *discipline* > > It's a discipline, a science, AND an art. I love programming :)
I love it too. But I think it’s a craft not an art. I think of art as totally unconstrained, and a craft as having to functionally work. I really like this quote: "Debugging is like being the detective in a crime movie where you are also the murderer." - Filipe Fortes -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list