Geek sublime
the beauty of code, the code of beauty
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Word Count
59,000 words, Guess
Page Count
236 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archivegeeksublimebeaut0000chan
- ISBN-101555976859
- ISBN-139781555976859
- Library of Congress Control Number2014935698
- OCLC Control Number870517918
and 2 more
- Better World Books9781555976859
- Open LibraryOL27164431M
Classifications
- DDC809.93356
- DDC005.1
- LCCPN56.T37 C43 2014
and 1 more
- LCCPN56.T37C426 2014
Alternate Titles
- Beauty of code, the code of beauty
Description
Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary book he returns to his early days as a writer, when he was beginning Red Earth and Pouring Rain, and looks at the connections between these two worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style just as writers are but do the words mean the same thing to both? And is it a coincidence that Chandra is drawn to two seemingly opposing ways of thinking? To answer his questions, Chandra delves into the writings of Abhinavagupta, the tenth- and eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker, and creates an idiosyncratic history of coding. Part literary theory, part tech story and part memoir, Mirrored Mind is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly original work.
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