A Programmers Take on “Six Memos for the Next Millennium”
Six Memos for the Next Millennium is a collection of five lectures that Italo Calvino was going to give in 1985. Unfortunately he passed away before he was able to deliver the lectures. Because of that the book is just a collection of his notes. He also hadn’t started on the sixth one, so the book only contains five. I became aware of the book because Jonathan Blow gave a great talk about it, and about how Italo Calvino inspired him:
The reason why I’m writing about the book is that while I think that they are great memos about writing, the more I think about them, the more they apply to programming. Which is a weird coincidence, because they were supposed to be memos for writers in the next millennium, and programming is kind of a new form of writing that’s becoming more important in this millennium.
Probably Dance 