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Geek Sublime - Writing Fiction, Coding Software (Paperback, Main)
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A great novelist on his twin obsessions: writing and coding. What
is the relationship between the two? Is there such a thing as the
sublime in code? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of coding?
Vikram Chandra is the award-winning author of two acclaimed novels
and a collection of short stories - and has been a computer
programmer for almost as long as he has been a writer. In his
extraordinary new book he looks at the connection 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? Exploring these questions,
Chandra creates an idiosyncratic history of coding - exploring such
varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the male
machismo of geeks, the striking presence of an 'Indian Mafia' in
Silicon Valley, and the writings of Abhinavagupta, the 10th - 11th
century Kashmiri thinker. Part technology story and part memoir,
Geek Sublime is a book of sweeping ideas. It is a heady and utterly
original work.
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