[FoRK] a pretty and enjoyable paper

[Lucas Gonze]

http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/Publications/CS-TR-02-9.abs.html

"
These notes have the status of "Letters written to ourselves": we wrote them
down because, without doing so, we found ourselves making up new arguments
over and over again. When reading what we had written, we were always
too satis ed.
For one thing, we felt they suffered from a marked silence as to what
postmoderism
actually is [75, 9]. Yet, we will not try to de ne postmodernism,
 rst because a complete description of postmodernism in general would be
too large for the paper [60, 43, 62, 71], but secondly (and more importantly)
because an understanding of postmodern programming is precisely what we
are working towards.
Very few programmers tend to see their (sometimes rather general) dif -
culties as the core of the subject and as a result there is a widely
held consensus
as to what programming is really about. If these notes prove to be a source of
recognition or to give you the appreciation that we have simply written down
what you already know about the programmer's trade, some of our goals will
have been reached.
"