June 30, 2011
4:54 p.m.
Mark Wiebe writes:
Why is one "magic" and the other "real"? All of this is already sitting on 100 layers of abstraction above electrons and atoms. If we're talking about "real," maybe we should be programming in machine code or using breadboards with individual transistors.
M-x butterfly RET http://xkcd.com/378/ -- "And it's much the same thing with knowledge, for whenever you learn something new, the whole world becomes that much richer." -- The Princess of Pure Reason, as told by Norton Juster in The Phantom Tollbooth