ENG 921 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Steve Meretzky, Donald Knuth, Cybertext
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Can digital communities be real communities: text based social interactions are sometimes referred to as virtual communities , as if real community cannot take place in digital, non-local communication, but needs physical, tangible space to exist properly. Steve meretzky, the creation of floyd the robot in planetfall . Numerous players revealed that this point in the game made them emotional, and even cry. One of life"s greatest pleasures can be the composition of a computer program that will be a pleasure for other people to read, and for yourself to read. Programming is best regarded as the process of creating works of literature, which are meant to be read. Literature of the program genre is performable by machines, but that is not its main purpose: must be readable by people. Change our traditional attitude towards the construction of program: move from thinking of our main task as being instructing a computer on what to do, to concentrating on .
