It's a kind of magic...
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What exactly are you smoking?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
..and did you keep something for us?
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So heres the thing, I am a developer with more than 10 years experience and I spend a lot of time wacthing and reading fantasy stuff (talk about stereotyping! :-D). It occured to me this weekend, that in many fantasy books, magic is all about learning a language, and using that language to make something out of nothing. So, in a given situation, I would choose specific words and use those to fix whatever problem I may currently have, for instance an attack by wargs, healing a fellow traveler or, and here's the thing, calculating the current VAT total of a bunch of invoices! Good grief, we are magicians! Now we only need to decide which languages are white magic and which are black magic. And I refuse to be drawn on that subject! Greetings from sunny South Africa!
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What exactly are you smoking?
Brad Australian - Christian Graus on "Best books for VBscript" A big thick one, so you can whack yourself on the head with it.
and why didn't you bring enough to share?
Software Zen:
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Illusionists APPEAR to do magic through prestidigitation and sleight of hand. We are actually creating something from nothing using only words. We are the real deal, magicians. IMHO anyway!
Greetings from sunny South Africa!
ColinBud wrote:
Illusionists APPEAR to do magic through prestidigitation and sleight of hand.
aka demonstrations
ColinBud wrote:
We are actually creating something from nothing using only words.
When we aren't writing demonstrations. :)
_________________________ Asu no koto o ieba, tenjo de nezumi ga warau. Talk about things of tomorrow and the mice in the ceiling laugh. (Japanese Proverb)