Fred Brooks explicitly compared programming with poetry and described programming as creation from pure thought-stuff through imagination.

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"Fred Brooks explicitly compared programming with poetry and described programming as creation from pure thought-stuff through imagination."

The opening essay presents programming as a highly tractable creative medium and directly likens the programmer to a poet. The passage comes from material already present in the original 1975 edition.

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Source title Mythical Man-Month, The: Essays on Software Engineering, Anniversary Edition, 2nd edition

Source authors Frederick P. Brooks

Source year 1995

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