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Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty (2013)

de Vikram Chandra

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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.… (mais)

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Only 1/3 about code; the rest was Indian philosophy which went a bit over my head. That a formal grammar for Sanskrit was developed a few thousand years BCE was amazing. (

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Castinet | Dec 10, 2022 |

This guy broke my brain and I loved it. Code, Indian literature, computers, memoir all deliciously stirred together. In some ways, it may seem that he jumps all over the place but honestly this book just flows so nicely and you’re learning at the same time and it all meshes.

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pacbox | Jul 9, 2022 |

This book is initially about the experience of computer program coding, but morphs into excursions into Panini linguistics and Sanskrit poetry. It's really an interesting book even if it isn't tightly woven. Indian philosophy is very broad ranging and the Sanskrit language is the mother lode of the Indo-European language grammar. As a person who likes comparative linguistics I sometimes have a different perspective on morphology and its effects. Chandra discusses the phrase gangayam ghoshah (a village on the Ganga) and I can see that the first word is accusative, but Chandra, under the influence of Anandavardhana is taken with this expression's figurative or metaphorical implications, whereas I would start with morphology and then proceed.

Although I learned Fortran in the late 1960s, I did not become a coder but only wrote programs very infrequently. (

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vpfluke | Apr 20, 2021 |

There were some interesting ideas in here, but it was sorely lacking in coherent narrative. Was an editor involved in this project? It seems unlikely given the prose that I could barely follow. I'm surprised that the author is a successful novelist. Based on this experience I won't be trying any of those novels. (

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christopher.hicks | Apr 10, 2020 |

A little too encyclopedic on the Indian poetry/Sanskrit, but a good description of what creativity looks like when writing code. (

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(...) a compendium of delight in which Chandra delves with relish into the bowels of technology and the intricate mechanisms of linguistic suggestion, drawing on his own experiences to create an extraordinary thesis that is part autobiography, part crash course in coding and unfailingly an ode to language.

(...) an eloquent tribute to text and its ability to shape our emotions, and rewrite the very world we live in.

adicionado por timtom | editarThe Guardian, Nicola Davis (Mar 23, 2014)

Chandra is brilliant at technical exegesis – explaining logic gates, or evoking the appeal of "object-oriented programming" – but he also casts a sceptical eye on modern coding culture, especially its generalised misogyny.

adicionado por timtom | editarThe Guardian, Steven Poole (Feb 26, 2014)

(...) a thought-provoking set of linked essays that are part memoir, part analysis of geeks, part aesthetic treatise.
(...) a delight to read and never prescriptive.

adicionado por timtom | editarThe Telegraph, Iain Pears (Feb 15, 2014)

partly aesthetic analysis, partly an investigation of linguistic theory, partly a history of programming— (...) an entirely original work.

adicionado por timtom | editarThe Economist (Feb 8, 2014)

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National Book Critics Circle Award (Finalist – Criticism – 2014)

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IV. Science is a Differential Equation. Religion is a Boundary Condition.

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V. Hyperboloids of wondrous Light

Rolling for aye through Space and Time

Harbour there Waves which somehow Might

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Biography & Autobiography. Nonfiction. Vikram Chandra has been a computer programmer for almost as long as he has been a novelist. In this extraordinary new book, his first work of nonfiction, he searches for the connections between the worlds of art and technology. Coders are obsessed with elegance and style, just as writers are, but do the words mean the same thing to both? Can we ascribe beauty to the craft of writing code? Exploring such varied topics as logic gates and literary modernism, the machismo of tech geeks, the omnipresence of an "Indian Mafia" in Silicon Valley, and the writings of the eleventh-century Kashmiri thinker Abhinavagupta, Geek Sublime is both an idiosyncratic history of coding and a fascinating meditation on the writer's art. Part literary essay, part technology story, and part memoir, it is an engrossing, original, and heady book of sweeping ideas.

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