Abstract
Are we really writing software? What do software writers have in common with other professional writers? What can we software developers learn from professional writers? This paper proposes a reflection on such topics using as a reference the book "Six Memos for the Next Millennium", a posthumous essay by the Italian novelist, editor, and literary critic Italo Calvino. A comparison is drawn between such work and the current principles ruling how software should be written and developed, and a claim is made that this is an area worth further exploration.
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Ciancarini, P., Masyagin, S., & Succi, G. (2020). Software design as story telling: Reflecting on the work of Italo Calvino. In Onward! 2020 - Proceedings of the 2020 ACM SIGPLAN International Symposium on New Ideas, New Paradigms, and Reflections on Programming and Software, Co-located with SPLASH 2020 (pp. 195–208). Association for Computing Machinery, Inc. https://doi.org/10.1145/3426428.3426925
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