If the objective was to paint a landscape, no artist would paint it quite the same as this painting would be an expression of him/her self- although of course there would be similarities from previous inspiration and similar teachings. You can say that painting was inspired by so and so or they went to a particular school of teaching because it has this feature, or that texture etc.
Likewise a computer programmer has an objective and no two computer programmers go about this the same way and the end result is expression of him/her self. Again there would be similarities from previous inspirations and teachings. It is possible to look at a piece of code and say that he was inspired by so and so because he used this and indented it like that etc.
An example from the book The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll talks about how he tracked down the hacker through the hackers expressiveness in their code - i.e. the hacker was using Berkley style Unix etc.
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If the objective was to paint a landscape, no artist would paint it quite the same as this painting would be an expression of him/her self- although of course there would be similarities from previous inspiration and similar teachings. You can say that painting was inspired by so and so or they went to a particular school of teaching because it has this feature, or that texture etc.
Likewise a computer programmer has an objective and no two computer programmers go about this the same way and the end result is expression of him/her self. Again there would be similarities from previous inspirations and teachings. It is possible to look at a piece of code and say that he was inspired by so and so because he used this and indented it like that etc.
An example from the book The Cuckoo's Egg by Cliff Stoll talks about how he tracked down the hacker through the hackers expressiveness in their code - i.e. the hacker was using Berkley style Unix etc.