I have investigated this sentence: “The first author’s analysis of political metaphors in the Java libraries (Blackwell 2006) has already drawn attention to the fact that social and political concerns may be central to future research in the psychology of programming.”
There is a confusion in reference, but (2006a) “Metaphors we program by: Space, action and society in Java.“ was a very interesting read. It did not conclude anything on politics, but did a literal corpus analysis of Javadoc texts. Many surprising concepts were revealed, but suggestions or convincing explanation lacking. Examples:
Economy: “deliver”, (“return”, “import” were disqualified due to keywords of Java)
I think they are approaching the problem at too abstract a level. And, no, I’m not being facetious.
I have investigated this sentence: “The first author’s analysis of political metaphors in the Java libraries (Blackwell 2006) has already drawn attention to the fact that social and political concerns may be central to future research in the psychology of programming.”
There is a confusion in reference, but (2006a) “Metaphors we program by: Space, action and society in Java.“ was a very interesting read. It did not conclude anything on politics, but did a literal corpus analysis of Javadoc texts. Many surprising concepts were revealed, but suggestions or convincing explanation lacking. Examples: