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Sometimes people squabble over whether programming is an art or a science. On the one hand, you have college curricula in Computer Science, and on the other hand, you have books such as Donald Knuth's famous The Art of Computer Programming series. "Rather", wrote physicist Richard Feynman, "computer science is like ingineering - it is all about getting something to do something."
If you ask 100 different people to write a program that prints out prime numbers, you'll get 100 different solutions. Even those programmers whose the Sieve of Eratosthenes won't implement it in precisely the same way that I did. If programming truly were a science, there wouldn't be so many possible solutions, and incorrect solutions would be more obvious. Occasionally, a programming problem incites flashes of creativity and insight, and that's the "art" part. But programming is mostly a designing and building process not unlike erecting a bridge.
If you ask 100 different people to write a program that prints out prime numbers, you'll get 100 different solutions. Even those programmers whose the Sieve of Eratosthenes won't implement it in precisely the same way that I did. If programming truly were a science, there wouldn't be so many possible solutions, and incorrect solutions would be more obvious. Occasionally, a programming problem incites flashes of creativity and insight, and that's the "art" part. But programming is mostly a designing and building process not unlike erecting a bridge.