{"id":631,"date":"2011-03-17T20:15:26","date_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/?p=631"},"modified":"2011-03-17T20:15:26","modified_gmt":"2011-03-18T02:15:26","slug":"literature-of-programs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/archives\/631","title":{"rendered":"Literature of programs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what programming will be like in a couple thousand years, when, presumably, programming languages and the systems built up from them will have attained a richly layered history of idioms, allusions, allegories, metaphors, genres, fads and past fads&#8230; I suppose it won&#8217;t take thousands of years, necessarily, since programming languages inherit a lot from human languages, and because software is mixed up in everything humans do and absorbs some of those flavors. But I also don&#8217;t think there&#8217;s really a literature of programs right now; at least, I haven&#8217;t been introduced to it yet, and I&#8217;d think I would have been. I&#8217;d love to have someone prove me wrong, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I wonder what programming will be like in a couple thousand years, when, presumably, programming languages and the systems built up from them will have attained a richly layered history of idioms, allusions, allegories, metaphors, genres, fads and past fads&#8230; I suppose it won&#8217;t take thousands of years, necessarily, since programming languages inherit a lot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","author-admin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ourada.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}