dialyn opened this issue on Apr 13, 2003 ยท 5 posts
dialyn posted Mon, 09 June 2003 at 9:49 AM
Thank you for the kind words. Here's one for the road, not related to books or reading, but on writing code, of all things...but applicable to all writing, I think. Who among us has not found this beast rising before us? "Writing code, he (Stuart Feldman) explains, is like writing poetry: every word, each placement counts. Except that software is harder, because digital poems can have millions of lines which are all somehow interconnected. Try fixing programming errors, known as bugs, and you often introduce new ones. So far, he laments, nobody has found a silver bullet to kill the beast of complexity." -Survey: The Beast of Complexity; The Economist (London, UK); Apr 14, 2001. From A.Word.A.Day--silver bullet for Tue, 27 May 2003