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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