/prog/ - A book I consider important

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-20 1:29

http://dump.udderweb.com/CODE.pdf

http://www.amazon.com/Code-Language-Computer-Hardware-Software/dp/0735611319

The author, Petzold, has been mentioned on /prog/ before, but AFAIK only in the context of his MS Windows books.

This one is different, because it helped me understand the nature of information, how it is part of reality and was so even before people existed. In that way, it helped me understand what functional programming is. (I'm sure that there is more than one path to that place, but this is the one I took.)

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 0:39

The wood is like the clock cycles remaining on your computer, a physical non-duplicable contraption that required direct exploitation of the environment to acquire.
The burning is an application running on it which is a duplicable process. Sounds like a strong analogy.
But its a stronger case against patents since it is a process and not a literary work, if patents existed in 4e5 BC this would be patentable.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 0:40

>>75
Books, music and software among other things are creative intellectual works. It takes effort to create one. If you go down the path of equating them to mere patterns of 0s and 1s then you're belittling the authors and not compensating them for their work. That's stealing.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 0:41

You're both wrong. It's a simile.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 0:49

>>82
I didn't say they shouldn't be compensated for their magnificent intellectual work, I just said file sharing isn't stealing. Criminalizing information sharing isn't the only way to ensure compensation, you know. Read up about the ,,global licence'' system that was proposed in France.

>>79
Mr. ESL
Actually, it's my third language, so that's quite complimentary. Thank you!

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 0:52

>>84
LS?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 1:04

>should
fuck you moralfaggot, i do what i want, i will steal if i can.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 1:31

>>86
You sound like a Jew.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 1:33

>>85
What's ,,LS''?

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 2:14

>>77
every time you start a fire, you must pay royalties to the first human to have started a fire.

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 2:44

>>86
Back to the imageboards, "please'`!!!

Name: Anonymous 2012-10-21 3:46

>>88
Are your initials LS?

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