ZitatAlles anzeigenEntombed - An archaeological examination of an Atari 2600 game
John Aycock and Tara Copplestone
Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Drive NW, Calgary, Alberta,
Canada
Centre for Digital Heritage, University of York, Department of Archaeology, Heslington, UK
Abstract
The act and experience of programming is, at its heart, a fundamentally human activity that results
in the production of artifacts. When considering programming, therefore, it would be a glaring omission to not
involve people who specialize in studying artifacts and the human activity that yields them: archaeologists
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Entombed
Introduction
Donald Knuth famously characterized programming as an art through his series of The Art of Computer Programming volumes. This is telling. Art is a creative, human endeavor, and one that typically results in the production of (possibly ephemeral) artifacts. When viewed in that light, it seems clear that the study of programming overlaps with the artifact-based study of human activity: archaeology. Traditional archaeology primarily concerns itself with past human activity, and in our examination of programming we focus here on the recent past, and in particular the programming of old computer games
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