Are we really writing software? What do software writers have in common with other professional writers? What can we software developers learn from professional writers? This paper proposes a reflection on such topics using as a reference the book "Six Memos for the Next Millennium", a posthumous essay by the Italian novelist, editor, and literary critic Italo Calvino. A comparison is drawn between such work and the current principles ruling how software should be written and developed, and a claim is made that this is an area worth further exploration.

Software design as story telling: Reflecting on the work of Italo Calvino / Ciancarini P.; Masyagin S.; Succi G.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2020), pp. 195-208. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, Onward! SPLASH 2020 tenutosi a usa nel 18 - 20 November 2020) [10.1145/3426428.3426925].

Software design as story telling: Reflecting on the work of Italo Calvino

Ciancarini P.
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
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Succi G.
2020

Abstract

Are we really writing software? What do software writers have in common with other professional writers? What can we software developers learn from professional writers? This paper proposes a reflection on such topics using as a reference the book "Six Memos for the Next Millennium", a posthumous essay by the Italian novelist, editor, and literary critic Italo Calvino. A comparison is drawn between such work and the current principles ruling how software should be written and developed, and a claim is made that this is an area worth further exploration.
2020
SPLASH 2020 - Onward! Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software,
195
208
Software design as story telling: Reflecting on the work of Italo Calvino / Ciancarini P.; Masyagin S.; Succi G.. - ELETTRONICO. - (2020), pp. 195-208. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, Onward! SPLASH 2020 tenutosi a usa nel 18 - 20 November 2020) [10.1145/3426428.3426925].
Ciancarini P.; Masyagin S.; Succi G.
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