Monday, February 1, 2010

Coder/Novelist

Hi all,

After reading the title some of you would say “what!!! a coder/novelist… what does a coder has to do with a novelist or with art for that matter!!! ” But I will tell you how a  Coder is just like an artist a novelist at least I think so... . His every piece of code is just like a novel or some times a short story :) . Although in this case the reader would not be a person most of the time but there is some kind of esthetics involved in coding a program as well.

First he creates an idea then he designs a plot of his program before writing it down. Now comes the writing… the pattern of writing a code is pretty much same as of a novel he starts by introducing you with his characters, telling you about there attributes, qualities and abilities, some times he may even just give you his name and you have to read the whole novel to know who the hell is he or why… and trust me that can be very  teasing some times and even it can make you want to kill your self or the writer :) I prefer the writer.

Then our story starts… When you are reading a novel or a code your feelings are quite the same. Some times you get every thing what writer wants to say and other times you have no idea what is going on here :). Some times you would appreciate the writer of his logic/esthetics and some times you would say “even I could do better than that !!! what was he thinking”.

Then comes the climax. The funny thing about the climax of a code is that it has both endings the happy ending when code executes successfully or the sad one. It all depends on the reader… In this way codes are better then novels :).