Is programming an art?

Banshaku · Post by **Banshaku** » Mon Aug 01, 2011 5:42 am

Doh! I'm mixing my assembler.. Getting rusty when you don't code for a while! "pla" sounds less interesting in that context, hmmm... I won't update my previous post since it will break the thread

I guess this image can be created from some automated website?

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 7:55 am

In my honest opinion programming is not an art, however making a video game is.

UncleSporky wrote:

stx #8 ???

thefox · Post by **thefox** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:12 am

Banshaku wrote:I guess this image can be created from some automated website?

I'm not sure, I did mine manually (and messed up so the text isn't properly aligned to the frame...)

tokumaru · Post by **tokumaru** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 10:22 am

Bregalad wrote:stx #8 ???

This has been pointed out already.

Bregalad · Post by **Bregalad** » Tue Aug 02, 2011 12:12 pm

design a full system from scratch is, IMHO, a form a art

I agree, however this doesn't make programing an art.

Programing inself is not an art, but it can be seen a tool to do art. Like math, which is just a tool that can be used for other purposes.

And you don't even need to use X when reading the controller anyway; you can use the result variable itself as the counter. Now that's art, if I do say so myself.

I disagree. A clever optimization is not art. That being said, a good video game would be a piece of art even without this kind of clever optimisation, even with goofy unoptimized high-level code.