Zen of Computer Programming

[René Micout]

This was in France in 1993 !
And it is not the really story...
During his holidays in his granMother's house in French mountain "Pyrénées"
he write 60 pages of math and algorithms. After his holidays he write the program in C++ on his computer...
Sorry this page is in French :
http://www.alquier.org/eerie/MagBesse/magb13/6.pdf

Le 9 janv. 2012 à 17:59, Alejandro Tejada a écrit :

> 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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