The Myth of Creativity

January 14th, 2008 § 0 comments

Another good read:The Myth of Cre­ativ­ity from dis­ci­pline and pun­ish. I com­pletely agree with his asser­tions on cre­ativ­ity.
An excel­lent quote is this:

It’s not just artists that fall for this poetry. The same error is quite com­mon among devel­op­ers too. Here it takes the form of “expres­sive power”. Here again the same flawed think­ing makes the same twists and turns and the end result is the same: the idea that a pro­gram­ming lan­guage ought to have as few con­straints as pos­si­ble to allow the devel­oper to express her cre­ativ­ity to the utmost.

Cre­ativ­ity with­out con­straint is line noise.

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