Talks #68 - Tudor Negrescu - From abstract art to the art of coding

From abstract art to the art of coding

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1. Tudor Negrescu @ Talks #68
2. “You like it, that's all, whether it's a landscape or abstract. You like it. It hits you. You don't have to read it. The work of art - sculpture or painting - forces your eye.” Clement Greenberg (1909 – 1994)
3. The art of coding Donald Knuth (1938 - ) Science is what we understand well enough to explain to a computer. Art is everything else we do.
4.  Mechanical calculus To Coding  Classical (i.e. Renaissance, Academism) To Abstraction The Path …
5.  Mechanical computing To Coding  Modernism To Abstraction The Path …
6.  Mechanical computing To Coding  Modernism To Abstraction The Path …
7.  Electro - Mechanical computing To Coding  Avantagarde To Abstraction The Path …
8.  Electronic computing To Coding  Abstract Expressionism To Abstraction The Path …
9.  Electronic computing & Internet Age To Coding  Minimalism / Conceptual / Contemporary Art To Abstraction The Path …
10. -- Type annotation (optional) factorial :: (Integral a) => a -> a -- Using recursion factorial n | n < 2 = 1 factorial n = n * factorial (n - 1) -- Using recursion, with guards factorial n | n < 2 = 1 | otherwise = n * factorial (n - 1) -- Using recursion but written without pattern matching factorial n = if n > 0 then n * factorial (n-1) else 1 -- Using a list factorial n = product [1..n] -- Using fold (implements product) factorial n = foldl (*) 1 [1..n] -- Point-free style factorial = foldr (*) 1 . enumFromTo 1 The art of coding “Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs: Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.” Vikram Chandra Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty