Python is science fiction, Java is literary fiction, and Ruby on Rails is store-bought steampunk goggles*. Cynthia emailed me about Cat Valente’s funny post about programming languages as literary genres this morning. Liz Henry has a write-up too.
* for the record, my steampunk goggles were bought off of Etsy.
Programming Languages as Literary Genres
February 3, 2009 – 2:36 pm
Fantasies of Political Agency
August 11, 2008 – 11:51 pm
Lois Bujold’s guest of honor speech at Denvention 3 was about genre boundaries, expectations, and her experiments with breaking them:
In fact, if romances are fantasies of love, and mysteries are fantasies of justice, I would now describe much SF as fantasies of political agency.
[via Cynthia Gonsalves]