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0 comments Published Sunday, April 15, 2007 by Mathieu.

Gunna try and start blogging again.

Here's a nice quite I found:

Of software and sorcery
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A computational process is indeed much like a sorcerer’s idea of a spirit. It cannot be seen or touched. It is not composed of matter at all. However, it is very real. It can perform intellectual work. It can answer questions. It can affect the world by disbursing money at a bank or by controlling a robot arm in a factory. The programs we use to conjure processes are like a sorcerer’s spells.
—Abelson and Sussman, Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs (1984)

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