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Background on Futurist Programming (1994)

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by fish2000 • 11 years ago

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fish2000• 11 years ago

q.v. The Manifesto of the Futurist Programmers, 1991 (linked) – based on the Futurist Manifesto, signatories include one Milanese painter, and 5 noteworthy denizens of Silicon Valley…

In the interest of not spoiling I leave it as an exercise to the reader to click through and scroll down

AnimalMuppet• 11 years ago

"All volts and no amps", so to speak. Or "All RPM, no MPH". Lots of overheated rhetoric, not much in terms of concrete proposals. Except that they think self-modifying code is just fine.

This seems like the emotional outburst of a bunch of amateurs. These aren't people who have ever had to maintain someone else's "burst of genius".

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