whump.com | More Like This WebLog » genre http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis Where is their vote? Mon, 28 Dec 2009 04:55:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Programming Languages as Literary Genres http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2009%2F02%2F03%2Fprogramming-languages-as-literary-genres%2F&seed_title=Programming+Languages+as+Literary+Genres http://www.whump.com/feeder/?FeederAction=clicked&feed=Articles+%28RSS2%29&seed=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.whump.com%2FmoreLikeThis%2F2009%2F02%2F03%2Fprogramming-languages-as-literary-genres%2F&seed_title=Programming+Languages+as+Literary+Genres#comments Tue, 03 Feb 2009 22:36:57 +0000 Bill Humphries http://www.whump.com/moreLikeThis/2009/02/03/programming-languages-as-literary-genres/ 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.

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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]

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