Sånn og sånn og sånn gjør vi det
Sånn og slik og sånn gjør vi det
En programmerer elsker dette:
Å automatisere tungt, kjedelig og farlig arbeid: Å skape intet ut av noe.
Å gripe en idé ut av løse luften og forme den til virkelighet : Å skape noe ut av intet.
"The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion of the imagination. Few media of creation are so flexible, so easy to polish and rework, so readily capable of realizing grand conceptual structures....
Yet the program construct, unlike the poet's words, is real in the sense that it moves and works, producing visible outputs separate from the construct itself. […]
The magic of myth and legend has come true in our time. One types the correct incantation on a keyboard, and a display screen comes to life, showing things that never were nor could be." -Fred Brooks