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by mmahemoff 4802 days ago
Nitpicking here and not taking anything away from Why's mighty contributions, but "first to create art around and about software" is not really accurate.

Look at the contributions of the design patterns community for inspiration, people who have long strived to understand what Christopher Alexander's QWAN ("quality without a name") means to software. A good example is Patterns of Software [1], but also a lot of the C2 wiki has this spirit. Less off-the-wall than Why, but still trying to get at the soul of software.

1. http://www.amazon.com/Patterns-Software-Tales-Community/dp/0...

2. http://c2.com/cgi/wiki