Geek Sublime : The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty

from kukulaj

I am a computer programmer... I have designed and built computer circuit - LS7400 and wire-wrap! - written simple operating systems, I/O device drivers, and lots of application code. Half of Chandra's book is about hardware and software technology. It was well written and pulls in tasty morsels -...

from antao

"Geek Sublime: Writing Fiction, Coding Software" by Vikram ChandraA long time ago when I was doing Software Engineering professionally (I was a C/C black belt coder back in the good old days of obfuscated coding practices...) I always of very keen to put lots of style and readability into my code...

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There were some interesting ideas in here, but it was sorely lacking in coherent narrative. Was an editor involved in this project? It seems unlikely given the prose that I could barely follow. I'm surprised that the author is a successful novelist. Based on this experience I won't be trying any ...

from vpfluke

This book is initially about the experience of computer program coding, but morphs into excursions into Panini linguistics and Sanskrit poetry. It's really an interesting book even if it isn't tightly woven. Indian philosophy is very broad ranging and the Sanskrit language is the mother lode of t...