🕸Fergus Duniho wrote on Wed, Dec 10, 2008 06:44 PM UTC:
To me, writing computer programs is like 'inventing' integer numbers.
After all, every computer program is just a long string of ones and zeros,
and that's just the binary representation of some integer. Likewise,
anything you can store on a computer -- such as books, pictures, audio
files -- these are just the equivalent of integers too. Surely, there must
be no creativity in writing novels, drawing pictures, or composing music,
because these can all be stored as computer files, full of nothing but
ones and zeroes, and any string of ones and zeroes is just the binary
representation of an integer.
