“ A computer program is a blueprint and its execution at the same time. Like a pianola roll, it is a score performing itself. The artistic fascination of computer programming — and the perhaps ecstatic revelation of any first-time programmer — is the equivalence of architecture and building, the instant gratification given once the concept has been finished. Computer programming collapses, as it seems, the second and third of the three steps of concept, concept notation and execution.
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