0. Preamble
Let us go then, you and I,
When the code is spread against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Code Read #11 from Scott Rosenberg deals with James Noble’s and Robert Biddle’s “Notes on Postmodern Programming”.
1. A Sentimentalist’s Apology
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats,
Of all-night coding, of cheap cube walls,
Of [...]
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