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        Date: 2026-06-11 08:58:17+00:00
        From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty@mccarty.org.uk>
        Subject: programming

On what has happened and is happening to the craft of programming, see
Paul Taylor, "Ask Claude", London Review of Books 48.8 (7 May 2026).

Those here who zero in on 'craft' will think of the crafts more generally as 
as result of the Industrial Revolution and then, post-WWII, automation. Is it 
to romanticise to think of the crafts transformed from industry by hand to
a vocation, to the question of what handcrafting is for? One can say this is 
only for the rich-in-pocket. I say, it is for the enrichment in mind.

Who now writes code in this way?

Comments?

WM
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