Permanence is a major theme of _why's work. Some of his final tweets were about comparing computer programs to works of literature, specifically Kafka. A longer meditation on this appears in this work.
Kafka asked his friend Max to burn all of his works and not have them published, but he was betrayed, and so we have Kafka's books.
_why burned his own works, but thanks to git, we were able to posthumously un-burn them.
And then this work was temporary, and what I did was make it permanent. Again.
Most of _why's projects don't really work on modern hardware, or with up to date compilers, or up to date versions of Ruby. Yet we can still read this book today.
Kafka asked his friend Max to burn all of his works and not have them published, but he was betrayed, and so we have Kafka's books.
_why burned his own works, but thanks to git, we were able to posthumously un-burn them.
And then this work was temporary, and what I did was make it permanent. Again.
Most of _why's projects don't really work on modern hardware, or with up to date compilers, or up to date versions of Ruby. Yet we can still read this book today.