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A computer is like a violin. You can imagine a novice trying first a phonograph and then a violin. The latter, he says, sounds terrible. That is the argument we have heard from our humanists and most of our computer scientists. Computer programs are good, they say, for particular purposes, but they arent flexible. Neither is a violin, or a typewriter, until you learn how to use it. Marvin Minsky, ``Why Programming Is a Good Medium for Expressing Poorly-Understood and Sloppily-Formulated Ideas quoted from THE book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs
Posted on: Mon, 08 Dec 2014 07:25:52 +0000

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