aesthetic properties of source code

locii of action

• data (input, output)
• data (structure)
• logic
• control flow
• error correction/management
• architecture (mvc, microservices, monolith)
• paradigms (functional, lambda, oop, imperative)
• keywords (lexicon)
• compiler/interpreter (and the rigor of each)
• metaphor vs. metonymy

modii of action

• copy/sort/compare/remove > relations
• constraints (cf. Exercises in programming style)

• brief names of variables so that the reader can focus on the structure source. verbs are functions, variables are nouns

• conciseness > brevity

code only stops being literature when it is directed at other technological apparatuses - corollary: is there anything related to literature at all when talking about code/hardware? - isn’t it just that it’s focused on linguistics? what is the connection between linguistics and lit?