Timeline for When did "Zen" in computer programming become a thing?
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| Mar 6, 2021 at 17:56 | comment | added | Taryn | @WalterMitty Weinberg was focused on ego in the context of pride and status; that code reviewees had to put aside their ego and listen to their peer's criticism with open mind. This is certainly true, but it was not Pirsig's focus, he was more interested in the meditative state where the mind is so absorbed in a task that self disappears, time disappears, the body disappears, except as an adjunct to the tasks, e.g. reading and typing. | |
| Jan 22, 2021 at 20:15 | comment | added | Walter Mitty | The idea of egoless programming was laid out in a book, The Psychology of Computer Prograsmming, by Gerald Weinberg, in 1971. | |
| Oct 29, 2018 at 23:26 | history | edited | Taryn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Oct 25, 2018 at 22:42 | history | answered | Taryn | CC BY-SA 4.0 |