todo

format

• [ ] deal with frames and page breaks on minted; https://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/433192/breaking-pages-in-minted-package
• deal with inline quotes properly (using the dirtytalk package)
• harmonize spacers
• add index
• harmonize spacer and spacersmall

conclusion

• [ ] add a footnote about Brenda : Brenda Baker undertook her Fortan-to-Ratfor converter against the advice of her department head–me. I thought it would likely produce an ad hoc reordering of the orginal, freed of statement numbers, but otherwise no more readable than a properly indented Fortran program. Brenda proved me wrong. She discovered that every Fortran program has a canonically structured form. Programmers preferred the canonicalized form to what they had originally written. source

chap 4 - programming

• rewrite intro of chap once the whole thing is re-read

• case studies

  • choose the case-studies in the way that is the most illustrative of my point. doesn’t have to be huge.
  • i should definitely have a more comparative approach: multiple code-bases, with aesthetics which are tied to LANGUAGE, COMMUNITY and PROBLEM (question of the idiomatic). this is better than having one case study after another, completely discontinued.
  • find similar problems in different programs, see how they deal with it
  • find specific cases where the cognitive load is high
  • again, DO IT IN PARALLEL as a comparative studies.

programming languages

styles

• [ ] language design \url{http://rigaux.org/language-study/syntax-across-languages/}

• [ ] add marielle macé to a bit of conclusion on the styles of programmers

• for fig. 62 (self_inspect), step through a computer interpretation of the process, before giving a literary interpretation of the process.
• for the code poems, I need to be able to articulate their relevance when looking at different domains. they’re not just related to literature, but also architecture (follies, pavillions) or math (pure math), while other source code (linux kernel) might also be a sort of literature (legal code). but also make it explicit that i talk about the ones that can run, not the code poems that are not executable
• in the case of list comprehension in Python, it is both a technical and social environment

functions

• [ ] rather than having 5.3 as this total disconnect, maybe start by writing a monolith to avoid the pitfalls of structure. particularly because at this point i need to synthesize. rather work on connections and disconnections between the social and the functional?
• [ ] re-quote hayles and her regime of computation (surface, depth, etc.) when i also talk about paloque berges et. al.

chap 3 - beauty

aesthetics

• mention that knowledge influences how we perceive things (brandy, mathematical beauty)
• from sy brand talk, gabrielle starr, feeling beauty: the neuroaesthetics of the experience: “Aesthetic response enables the comparison and integration of novel kinds of reward in a process that opens possibilities for new knowledge, or new ways of negotiating the world. The perceptions, images, and emotions we find through our experience of poetry, painting and music put ideas and events into relation with one another that would rarely, if ever, be possible outside the arts.”

literature

• In literature, include rousset: forme et signification
• remove god and xml example?

architecture

• add more code examples (check the architecture of open source applications? redis?)

mathematics

• mathematics: add a discussion of dijkstra’s shortest path algorithm?
• add knuth on dijkstra, simple program, complex proof (knuth, simple, 1990)

chap 2 - understanding

• [ ] recs from guido, neuropsychologists who might be interested: stanislas dehaene and christophe paillier
• [ ] levels of software (as we may code) highlights the need for such a thing (quoting: What if, instead of lowering source code down for the purpose of execution, we raised source code for the purpose of understanding?)
• [ ] tools add to means of understanding and IDEs deciding how we write: https://thorstenball.com/blog/2020/02/04/how-much-do-we-bend-to-the-will-of-our-tools/
• [ ] tools including a discussion of how does step in a debugger relate to code as terrain, or surface coverage for tests? e.g. how does build and architecture related to code as structure?
• [ ] include the concept of interface by matthew kirschenbaum https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nancy-Ide/publication/229666751_Preparation_and_Analysis_of_Linguistic_Corpora/links/5a75ec770f7e9b41dbd04d97/Preparation-and-Analysis-of-Linguistic-Corpora.pdf#page=550
• [ ] programmer metaphors my approach to metaphors should be more systematic: that is, I should look into how metaphors can represent a SYSTEM (for instance, symlink is a limitation when it comes to the files and folder metaphor)
• [ ] programmer metaphors metaphor of the macro (implies scale), of scope, of global, implies scale as well. libraries is also a metaphor that is literary.
• [ ] programmer metaphors refer to master/slave as a problematic one

chap 1 - ideals

• [ ] add a subsubsec on verbosity?

• [ ] harmonize subsubsection (Smells -> smelly?)

• [ ] add pressman - software engineering: a practicioner’s approach in the part about software developers

introduction

• explain that beauty might be a metaphor itself of “good” (value judgments, etc.)