Postmodern Programming : How I Learned to Stop Programming and Love Scrapheap Software Paperback / softback
by James Noble, Robert Biddle
Paperback / softback
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With hardly anyone realizing it, software development has fundamentally changed, in ways that parallel the broader cultural shift from "modernism" to "postmodernism." "Modern" applications include compilers; aircraft avionics; and nuclear power plant control software.
Postmodern programs include computer games; viruses; aircraft personal entertainment systems; groupware for organizing protests for (and against) nuclear power plans; integrated supply chain management systems; and systems for finding the cheapest downloadable Paris Hilton video.
Postmodern software doesn't just do different things: it is created and evolved in fundamentally different ways, with different tools.
Exemplary "modern" software development technologies included Pascal, 7-bit ASCII, and Entity-Relationship Diagrams.
Exemplary "postmodern" technologies include Perl, HTML, Google, and Wikipedia.
Postmodern programming rejects overarching grand narratives: it is built up, following practice, rather than created top-down from theory.
If you program, you need to understand this revolutionary shift.
Postmodern Programming illuminates it, and reveals its implications for everyone who writes code -- or relies on it.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Pearson Education (US)
- Publication Date:28/10/2018
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- ISBN:9780321518651
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:228 pages
- Publisher:Pearson Education (US)
- Publication Date:28/10/2018
- Category:
- ISBN:9780321518651
