My comment doesn&#x27;t assert that programming is <i>always</i> art.<p>Slathering paint onto a surface isn&#x27;t always art.<p>Big Oh has to do with large N.<p><i>&quot;If a program manipulates a large amount of data, it does so in a small number of ways.&quot;</i> --- Epigram 5, Alan Perlis<p><i>&quot;For every polynomial-time algorithm you have, there is an exponential algorithm that I would rather run.&quot;</i> -- Alan Perlis<p><i>&quot;Don&#x27;t do things that scale&quot;</i> -- P. Graham