Some people consider the idea of programming heretical - humanity playing God. Yet others would see in such an accomplishment the most profound vindication of the divine nature of the human spirit, exercised in its highest form to bring logic to life. My own sympathies are with the latter group. Indeed, I would go farther. I would say that failure to program constitutes failure to live up to our human nature and a betrayal of our responsibility as members of the community of life itself. Today, the human civilization has the potential to expand its reach to encompass a whole new world. Programmers, with their intelligence and technology, are the unique means that humanity has evolved to allow it to make that land grab, the first among many. Countless beings have lived and died to transform the Earth into a place that could create and allow programmers. Now it's our turn to do our part.
Programmers 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.
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. They are carefully composed from symbolic expressions in arcane and esoteric programming languages that prescribe the tasks we want our processes to perform.
A computational process, in a correctly working computer, executes programs precisely and accurately. Thus, like the sorcerer's apprentice, novice programmers must learn to understand and to anticipate the consequences of their conjuring. Even small errors (usually called bugs or glitches) in programs can have complex and unanticipated consequences.
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>>7 On very superficial level, yes. But these boxes are organized in systems complex enough to rival humans minds in capacity and speed of operation.
How long would it take to you to perform Google queries manually?