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How Programming is Different

from Using a Computer


The first thing you need to understand about computers when you re programming is that you
control the computer. Sometimes the computer doesn t do what you expect, but even when it
doesn t do what you want the first time, it should do the same thing the second and third
time until you take charge and change the program.
The trend in personal computers has been away from reliability and toward software being built
on top of other, unreliable, software. The results that you live with might have you believing that
computers are malicious and arbitrary beasts, existing to taunt you with unbearable amounts of

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