From the State
of the Onion
... a Text, whether spoken or written, is an act of communication requiring intelligence on both ends
.. and sometimes in the middle too. I don't want to talk to a stupid computer language. I want my computer language to understand the strings I type.
Writing a computer program is like having a
conversation with a computer. Not only do
you have to keep up your end of the conversation,
you have to keep up the computer's end too.
