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The Opening: This workshop is ready for every person that feels programming as an art and is disposed to sacrifice time and effort to the quality and beauty of handmade crafts. There are pioneers on this art. Single persons that despite the pressure of being in counter-tendency have accomplished such tasks that the most have considered inutile or foolish and now is becoming essential. One of this pioneers creates from scratch an incredible jewel with a very nice property, shared by a very few: the ability to create itself. One pioneer more takes this ability and extends it in order to create an entire place to grow: an entire operating system, able to create itself. We want to pay tribute to these pioneers from whom we are learning this art, hoping to be a mecenates to allow them and others to continue their research on their masterpieces. This art is a dynamic art. An opus is never finished. It grew and feeds from others and from itself forever. You can view these creations evolving just now and participate in a growing community. Visit the fasm community and MenuetOS official site. Assembly language is the last extent of every effort that a human being can spent in programming. The rest is left to the machine and their architects. We are part of the large open source community; we are just living in The Renaissance of computer programming. We are helping to defeat the dark ages. |
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"I have often felt that programming is an art form,
whose real value can only be appreciated
by another versed in the same arcane art;
there are lovely gems and brilliant coups
hidden from human view and admiration, sometimes forever,
by the very nature of the process.
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Ed Nather
May 21, 1983
"Studies for Human Body Proportions"
(Vetruvian Man)
Galleria dell'Accademia, Venezia
Leonardo da Vinci
arround 1498