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[–] [email protected] 25 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You enchant rocks engraved with runes

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Computer programmers are the wizards of the present.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

There was a series of books in the '80s where a systems programmer gets pulled through a portal into your typical magical world, good vs evil, etc.

They subsequently look at the magical spells in use and realise they can apply Good Systems Programming Practices™ to them. And thus, with their knowledge of subroutines and parallel processing, they amplify their tiny innate magical abilities up to become a Pretty Good Magician™. So while all the rest of the magicians basically have to construct their spells to execute in a linear fashion, they're making magical subroutines and utility functions and spawning recursive spells without halting checks and generally causing havoc.

It's quite a good allegory for modern times, where a select few build all the magic and the rest just have useful artefacts they use on a day to day basis with no idea how they work

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

That sounds very interesting, do you remember the name or the author?