Also screens are crystals with shimmering lights within
As far as I can tell, computers are magic This means programming books are spell grimoires. Explains a lot...
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No wonder the name LCD it's all voodoo
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I first heard of this analogy in “structure and interpretation of computer programs”, https://mitpress.mit.edu/sites/default/files/sicp/index.html …
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Quote from SICP “A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer’s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched....”
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If programmers are conjurers, then I thrived not to do cheap tricks. Isn’t that what gandalf said in lord of the rings?
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Cool analogy!
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I just read an excerpt for my professional responsibilities course that compares programming to a ‘black art’: https://umich.instructure.com/files/884119/download?download_frd=1 …. It is an interesting lens to view the discipline through.
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That’s basically the premise of The Laundry Files...
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Every spell begins with the word “lambda”.
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