“While code is written collectively, it’s a community that’s rarely seen - though often felt. Every comment is an implicit acknowledgement of that community, and of all the careful caretakers who may someday be revisiting your code.”

A sentence that makes me think about my own relationship with computer, code and programming. 😇👾👩‍💻

“BASIC made learning to code easy - but for whom?” in The Illusion of empowerment.

Starting to read a new book and the first chapter is about “Error, Failure, and Code Creation” - fells quite similar to my research 👀🫣🤓

Words by John Backus, leader of the group of the FORTRAN programming language.