I just did the obit on John W. Backus for a series called Newsmakers. (For those in the audience who, like me until last month or so, haven't heard of him, he's the guy who led the team that developed Fortran, which is basically the forerunner to all software in existence.) I totally believe in the creativity of software designers and computer speak. Although in everything I've read, technological creativity almost always comes out of laziness... Backus himself said that he was too lazy to want to code each computer individually, so he went about finding an easier way!
I also kind of love the idea of creativity from laziness in general. :)
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Date: 2007-11-13 03:21 am (UTC)I also kind of love the idea of creativity from laziness in general. :)