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Epigrams On Programming
Programming languages
A language that doesn't affect the way you think about programming, is not worth knowing.
The law of the excluded muddle
Structured Programming supports the law of the excluded muddle.
Programming as punning
Like punning, programming is a play on words.
Everything is a special case of something more general
In programming, everything we do is a special case of something more general - and often we know it too quickly.
Hamlet On The Holodeck
The holodeck idea
First introduced on 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' in 1987, the holodeck consists of an empty black cube covered in white gridlines upon which a computer can project elaborate simulations by combining holography with magnetic "force fields" and energy-to-matter conversions…
Introducing Artificial Intelligence (Henry Brighton and Howard Selina)
A program can outplay its designer
This victory of machine over man is widely cited, and for good reason. It demonstrates an important lesson: the capabilities of an artificial agent are not necessarily restricted by the capabilities of the designer. Samuel’s program plays better checkers than he does.
Genghis walks with fifty-one tiny programs
Genghis has no central control. Nowhere in his construction is there a description of how to walk. “The software for Genghis was not organized as a single program but rather as fifty-one little tiny parallel programs.”
Overview \ Processing.org
A Processing program is a sketch
A Processing program is called a sketch. The idea is to make Java-style programming feel more like scripting, and adopt the process of scripting to quickly write code. Sketches are stored in the sketchbook, a folder that's used as the default location for saving all of your…