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Short interview (advertisement?) in Salon with Scott Rosenberg about his new book "Dreaming in Code". It is an effort to explain coding to non programmers, or as he puts it:

My goal was really more to write something that, if you were a developer, then yes, you might find it interesting. But even more, if you had a relative who was always wondering, "What is it that you do all day?" you could hand my book to that relative and say, This is what my work is really like.
Most of what he has to say really resonates with me as being correct. Especially the parts about the advantages of having only one person writing a particular piece of software.

Jonathan Rentzsch, an actual programmer (Rosenberg is just an observer,) has some push back that strikes me as correct as well.

Interesting discussion.
- jim 2-05-2007 6:53 pm [link] [2 refs] [1 comment]

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