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|    Nightfox to bagwaa    |
|    Re: ANSI art    |
|    30 Jul 25 16:18:32    |
      TZUTC: -0700       MSGID: 54635.sync@1:103/705 2cf0b898       REPLY: 54634.sync@1:103/705 2cf0afd6       PID: Synchronet 3.21a-Linux master/2f4bbab4a8 Jul 18 2025 GCC 13.3.0       TID: SBBSecho 3.29-Linux master/6d0371950 Jul 15 2025 GCC 12.2.0       COLS: 80       BBSID: DIGDIST       CHRS: CP437 2       FORMAT: flowed       NOTE: SlyEdit 1.92a (2025-06-24) (ICE style)        Re: Re: ANSI art        By: bagwaa to Mortar on Wed Jul 30 2025 11:13 pm               Mo>> I like to think everybody's creative in some way. You just have to find               ba> Ha, I like the thought of this, however after 48 years I've still not        ba> found mine. Having said that, I've been writing code for 35 of those        ba> years, 30 in a professional setting, and I have a friend that swears by        ba> the idea that coding is an art form.               ba> I love "clean code" but I'm not a perfectionist, I see the quality in        ba> getting something done and shipped as much as I see the need for        ba> developers to be able to understand what the person before them wrote.               ba> Maybe that's the art form? a craft as such?              Yeah, I there are different forms of creativity - Artistic creativity,       problem-solving creativity, and so on. If someone has a good level creativity       in thinking and problem-solving, that can help a lot with programming. I do       think there's something to be said for code that does its job well and is       clean and fairly easy to understand.              Nightfox              ---        þ Synchronet þ Digital Distortion: digitaldistortionbbs.com        * Origin: Vertrauen - [vert/cvs/bbs].synchro.net (1:103/705)       SEEN-BY: 10/0 1 102/401 103/1 17 705 105/81 106/201 124/5016 128/187       SEEN-BY: 129/14 153/7715 154/110 218/0 1 215 601 610 700 840 860 880       SEEN-BY: 226/30 227/114 229/110 206 317 400 426 428 550 700 705 266/512       SEEN-BY: 280/464 291/111 301/1 320/219 322/757 342/200 396/45 460/58       SEEN-BY: 633/280 712/848 902/26 5075/35       PATH: 103/705 218/700 229/426           |
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