What We Like

The Exercise

Jerry Weinberg led an exercise in which we listed things we liked about computing and the computing experience. In it we listed many wide-ranging and strange things (some are listed below).

Results of the Exercise

Notably, programming languages, formal methods, and many of the things typically associated with a computer science education were missing.

Some examples of what we liked included:

• Cambridge Polish
• Scripting
• Hacking
• E-mail
• Tex
• The Web
• GC
• Long, dark nights
• Unconventional lifestyle
• Blinking lights
• Lambda calculus
• Jargon
• Pretty fonts
• Emacs
• Word wrap
• Instant messaging
• High-quality scanners and printers
• Lisp
• Assembly language