The document compares programmers to poets, arguing that they are similar in key ways. It defines a programmer as someone who creates software through coding, and a poet as someone who composes poems. It then lists three main similarities between the two: 1) They both must know and follow the structured rules/language of their medium, 2) They both engage in composition by arranging notions and words in a meaningful order, and 3) Their work requires concise writing to convey the most with as few words as possible. The document concludes that a program will fail to run similarly to a poem failing to resonate if the flow is disrupted, and that practice is needed to improve in both fields.

1. Programmer(programming) == Poet(poetry) Subject: Software Engineering Student: Petros Nasi Minilecture 2008

2. Contents Introduction Programmer definition Poet definition Similarities Conclusion References

3. Introduction When I'm writing poetry, it feels like the center of my thinking is in a particular place, and when I'm writing code the center of my thinking feels in the same kind of place." - Richard Gabriel , Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems

4. Introduction Programming as a notion has been part of man’s life before the emergence of computers .

5. Introduction Also man has the need to express their emotions and pursuits that with the help of poetry, painting, music.

6. Programmer Definition Programmer is an individual who- through language- has the capability and the knowledge to create software for a computer. Programmer is in general the individual who composes codes for any kind of computer.

7. Programmer Definition Constantinos Kavafis:«It’s not Ithaca, it’s the road».

8. Poet Definition A poet is an individual who can compose poems.

9. Poet Definition It’s the person with the gift of poetry, thought, imagination, creativity all that combined with the eloquence of composition.

10. Similarities The programmer creates.The poet creates ∴ The programmer is a poet As mentioned above, both the poet and the programmer create, however the first creates poems, while the latter creates programs. 1. Structured Language 2. Composition 3. Writing The above are the axis on which the similarities are based.

11. Similarities 1. Structured Language know the language well in order to compose. meaning the rules that construct a language programmer follows a specific route in the writing of a cod e

12. Similarities 2. Composition programmer composes by the rules not only words, but also notions, data ,classes ,object, mathematics understand the above notions have strongly structured thought and combinatory capacities in order to find and place the right words in the right order.

13. Similarities 3. Writing does not waste space as few and more effective words as possible cannot compose a spaghetti code when they can give the same context in one.

14. Conclusion

15. Conclusion When the right flow does not exist in a poem, the reader may stop reading it, in the same way that a program will stop working , if there is an error in a specific line of commands. According to Richard Gabriel , Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, that can only be fixed with everyday practice both in poetry, as well as in programming.

16. References http://www.kopozky.net/programmers-poetry http://oscarrodriguezcarmona.com/blog/?cat=14 http://www.savagechickens.com/tag/robert-frost http://users.hol.gr/~barbanis/cavafy/ithaca.html http://www.dreamsongs.com/Bio.html http://amusingprogrammer.blogspot.com/2008/08/twitter-spectrum-programming-to-poetry.html Foundations of Programming Pilosophy,Methods and Structure (Mike James 1989) Introduction To The Design And Analysis Of Algorithms.(S.E. Goodman, S.T. Hedetniemi 1977)

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