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Originally Posted by Namekuseijin
Software is useful, art is not: software can help find a cure for cancer, a book will only imagine about a world without cancer.
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A book can report and share the results of a study on carcinogens, allowing other researchers to take that research in new directions and find a cure for cancer.
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Software is essentially a mechanical work, a book is a creative endeavour.
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Oh, it is so easy to tell that you have no understanding of programming -- or, in brutal terms, no bloody clue what you're talking about. Nor, apparently, any clue how many people you just insulted, and how deeply.
I'm an artist who can't draw. I feel the need for art, the need to create, the need to
make things and put my vision into some form that other people can see, but I don't have an artistic bone in my body, as far as conventional arts are concerned. I'm just not wired that way. But I know what artists feel, and what they dream, and what it is like to be "in the zone", because I feel it when I create software. Programming is my art.
If software were just a mechanical work, then anyone could build it. There would be no need for programmers. Microsoft could fire a hell of a lot of people and replace them with a few scripts. They haven't yet.
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Software is utilitarian, a book serves no purpose other than offering new points of view and experiences...
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A game is utilitarian? Or a music visualization?
There are no books other than novels?
I think some more experience is needed for greater understanding here.