Program Text, Programming Style, Programmer Labor
Datos Bibliográficos
| ID | 7276754 |
|---|---|
| Autores | Brian Lennon (0000-0002-5577-3364, autor de correspondencia) |
| Año | 2018 |
| Volumen | 14 |
| Número | 3 |
| Páginas | 372-394 |
| Fecha de publicación | 2018-11-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Sí |
| Open Access | No |
| Tipo | ARTICLE |
| Revista | Cultural Politics an International Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Identificadores de la revista | ISSN: 1743-2197 • E-ISSN: 1751-7435 |
| Editorial | Duke University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1215/17432197-7093380 |
| OpenAlex | W2900839222 |
| Idioma | EN |
| Citas recibidas | 1 |
| Referencias citadas | 32 |
Computer programming can be understood as both a kind of writing and a special class of human labor activity facilitating the automation of other human labor activities, not excluding itself. From the very beginning of the history of computer programming, it was recognized that the technical logic of programming is a logic of automation, indeed, a logic of self-automation or even recursive automation. This article suggests that a syntactic feature common to all programming languages used today serves as a register of this logic of automation, leaving traces in code that are legible if one knows where to look. That feature is the comment: natural-language text within a computer program that is written exclusively for human readers of the program and is separated from executable code, though it stands alongside it. At their most interesting, in patterns of use to which a managerial discourse of software craftspersonship is actively hostile, yet to which so-called literate programming practice is indifferent, program comments are traces of a mode of technical labor whose privilege and precarity both rest on its obscurity, an obscurity in no way resistant to reading
Automation · Computer security · Executable · Functional logic programming · Inductive programming · Precarity · Privilege (computing · Programmer · Programming language · Programming paradigm · Sociology · Computability, Logic, AI Algorithms · Computer Science · Cybernetics and Technology in Society · Engineering · History of Computing Technologies
The Computer Boys Take Over
Uberworked and underpaid
Recoding Gender
Digital labor
Gérard Genette Paratexts
Literate Programming
Digital Labour and Karl Marx
The Invention of the Object
The Footnote
The language of comments in computer software
When Technology Became Language
When Computers Were Women
The footnote
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| Citas por año | 1 |
| Intervalo de citas | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Velocidad de citación | current |
| Altamente citado | No |
| Tipos de cita | Neutras: 1 |