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an amusing quote

Chapter 1 first paragraph:

“We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.”


Chapter 1 first paragraph:

“We are about to study the idea of a computational process. Computational processes are abstract beings that inhabit computers. As they evolve, processes manipulate other abstract things called data. The evolution of a process is directed by a pattern of rules called a program. People create programs to direct processes. In effect, we conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.”

taken blatently from “Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs” written by Harold Abelson and Gerald Jay Sussman with Julie Sussman The MIT Press

I’m so terribly amused.

ps you can read the book here;

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book.html