Knitting as programming

[Terrence Dorsey]

Infotropism[^]:

I’ve seen a few people, over the years, compare knitting to programming. It usually goes something like this: Wow, have you ever looked at a knitting pattern? It looks kind of like source code! Those knitters must be real geeks! Is what you’re doing programming? Of course not! It’s the reverse of programming: you’re reading a series of low-level instructions and doing what they say. It would be more accurate to say you’re an interpreter, or possibly a compiler.

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