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| c9b646e | Code is not like other how-computers-work books. It doesn't have big color illustrations of disk drives with arrows showing how the data sweeps into the computer. Code has no drawings of trains carrying a cargo of zeros and ones. Metaphors and similes are wonderful literary devices but they do nothing but obscure the beauty of technology. | programming computer-science technology | Charles Petzold | |
| 36110a2 | El desarrollo de software comparte con el deporte profesional la caracteristica de lograr que los treintaneros se sientan decrepitos | computer-engineering software software-development computer-science | Neal Stephenson |