Building Bridges

Programming is neither an art nor a science, as I wrote in Orthodoxy, but we have an advantage over other crafts in that we can experiment cheaply and our material is our own creativity, like writers rather than sculptors. Where a sculptor working in wood can never escape the possibility of an unexpected knot or flaw in the grain, we&rsquo;re able to tie our &ldquo;material&rdquo; directly to…