Software is so expressive that it is better thought of not as engineering but as an art form. The plasticity and flexibility of code offer an immensely rich design space, far closer in the breadth of possibilities to creative activities like sculpting and fiction writing than engineering activities like bridge building. As with other art forms, practitioners regularly develop new genres and movements that fundamentally shift whatβs possible.
Dixon, Chris. Read Write Own: Building the Next Era of the Internet (p. xx). (Function). Kindle Edition.
