Zen of Computer Programming

Scott Rossi scott at tactilemedia.com
Mon Jan 9 12:12:02 EST 2012


I can't answer your question (my software has plenty of flaws), but I can
offer this:

Recently, the Dalai Lama went into a pizza shop and asked, "Can you make me
one with everything?"


Regards,

Scott Rossi
Creative Director
Tactile Media, UX Design



Recently, Alejandro Tejada wrote:

> Hi all,
> 
> Recently I was talking with one of my students from
> Macromedia FreeHand/Adobe Photoshop classes:
> http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2733273854751.2150939.1344437396&type
> =1&l=7917ab7ac2
> and he asked me if the following was true:
> 
> "The best computer programmers could create a
> flawless program without the need to run this
> program in a computer."
> 
> Well, (I said him), I read about a software developer
> named Bruno Delean who created his software namde
> "Live Picture" in this way... but it's not common.
> 
> http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m3065/is_n12_v23/ai_16090826/
> 
> "Live Picture's extraordinary performance is achieved by virtue of a
> radical new concept/technology called FITS
> (Functional Interpolating Transformation System), which was developed
> by Bruno Delean of Toulouse, France-based FITS Imaging.
> Legend has it that Delean wrote all of the FITS code by hand during a
> five-year sojourn in the French Alps, praticing a sort of Zen development.
> He's since come down from the mountain with a truly unique program."
> 
> My question to all of you is,
> 
> How many developers you know that could create almost flawless
> programs without running and debugging?
> 
> What is their special gift?
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
> Al






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