Salon Interviews Neal Stephenson

Posted by timothy on Wednesday April 21, 2004 @12:40AM from the whose-books-bring-me-joy dept.

edibleplastic writes "Salon has a great interview with Neal Stephenson, author of such science fiction favorites as Snow Crash, Cryptonomicon, and Quicksilver. He discusses his views on the scientific community (both past and present), the world of science fiction, and writing in general. "I think there are common threads between writing and programming... All I'm saying is that the thing you're making -- the novel or the computer program -- has got a very complicated and finely wrought hierarchical structure to it. The structure has to work right or the whole thing fails. But the only way you can work on it is by hitting one character at a time...""

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Linux code full of holes! by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 00:41 · Score: -1, Offtopic

bash$ find linux-2.6.5 -exec grep FIXME {} \; | wc -l 2494 bash$
Look how few posts.... by millahtime · 2004-04-21 01:13 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Look how few posts there are to this article. I don't feel alone in not wanting to read that long of an article and not haveing a damn thing to say about this.

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Re:So much for metaphors by julesh · 2004-04-21 01:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Doh! should've previewed. Reposting again....
This FP 7o8 GNAA by Anonymous Coward · 2004-04-21 02:08 · Score: -1, Offtopic

Don't be a slin*g