modern and postmodern programming

[Simon St.Laurent]

This certainly leans toward the aesthetics side of philosophy, but may still strike some sparks:

<http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/2013/10/togetherjs-a-postmodern-tool.html>

It's based on:

<http://www.mcs.vuw.ac.nz/comp/Publications/CS-TR-02-9.abs.html>

And for a different intriguing angle, check out Mark Bernstein's Neo-Victorian Computing:

<http://www.markbernstein.org/NeoVictorian.html>

Thanks,
Simon St.Laurent
http://simonstl.com/

[Tom Brooke]

Steve mentioned the Courseara course:  THe Modern and the Postmodern taught by Michael Roth 

https://class.coursera.org/modernpostmodern-002   

I just completed it, I thoroughly enjoyed it.

 I was glad to see the Comment from Martin Fowler below and the blog post about together.js and I think I understand it now.

In Post modern Programming I've been thinking about Redhat with their Polyglot explorations:

 http://immutant.org/tutorials/overlay/     

The trend towards Reactive programming how Rails has evolved into platform running javascript and finally REST ant and Hypermedia as a way to say rather than a monolith lets find a basis where we can recognize diversity while affording a way to allow co-existence 

    

PostModernProgramming

Martin Fowler

A way of thinking about programming introduced by James Noble and Robert Biddle. The essence of it (at least for me) is that software development has long had a modernist viewpoint that admirable software systems are composed of uniform components, composed in a uniform and simple way. (Smalltalk and Lisp are good examples of this kind of thinking.) A post-modern view is that software is all sorts of different very different stuff glued together in all sorts of different ways (think Perl and Unix), and this style of software (big bucket of glue) isn't a bad thing.

To read more try the original Notes on Post Modern Programming, just beware that it's written in a post-modern style which means it lacks a grand narrative. If you have access to the ACM digital library you can also reach the follow up Notes on Notes on Post Modern Programming. You may also be interested in the scrapheap challengeworkshop. They've also set up a (at the moment rather empty) web site.

--
You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Philosophy in a time of Software" group.
To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to philosophy-in-a-time-o...@googlegroups.com.
For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

[Steve Klabnik]

Also see this classic: http://www.wall.org/~larry/pm.html

[matt burton]

It is funny, all of a sudden I have been bumping into discussions of post-modern programming across the interwebs. From my perspective, they appear independent but maybe there are threads that connect them that I cannot see...

Anyway, here is a blog post on data science and postmodern thinking by John Foreman from Mailchimp who just wrote a book on data science that I will admit I have purchased but not yet read:http://www.john-foreman.com/1/post/2013/10/data-science-and-the-techonological-realization-of-postmodern-thinking.html

also, totally independent of this discussion and that post, last week I registered http://pomo.io on a whim, mainly as a joke, and now I'm wondering if there might be something interesting to be done with it. I am hosting the site out of github and I'm thinking I'll accept any and all pull-requests to modify the site's contents. I think it could be an interesting experiment in some kind of multi-modal journal to explore post-modernism/post-structuralism in and through technological mediation.