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.
Ciancarini P., Masyagin S., Succi G. (2020). Software design as story telling: Reflecting on the work of Italo Calvino. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc [10.1145/3426428.3426925].
Software design as story telling: Reflecting on the work of Italo Calvino
Ciancarini P.
Writing – Original Draft Preparation
;Succi G.
2020
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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.| File | Dimensione | Formato | |
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