how to think like a programmer if all you know is cooking
Submitted by greggles on Thu, 2007-03-15 09:37.
So, not many people understand programming. Here's a funny/interesting way to describe programming in terms of cooking. I like it.
Similarly, I once heard an analogy about asking a software engineer to build a bridge from San Francisco to Hawaii. A software engineer would say "no problem" and then do:
while (notInHawaii) {
buildbridge();
}
Clearly that won't work in general, but in software it does. That's what makes software so interesting in a world of cheap computing resources.

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