On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 11:29:25PM +0900, Simon Walter wrote: > On 07/18/2016 11:06 PM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > >On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 08:16:03AM +0200, Edward Bartolo wrote: > >>Hi, > >> > >>Simon Walker wrote: > > > >> > >><< > >>Can you explain how a computer works to a child or perhaps a rubber duck? > >>>> > >>You place a child at the same level as a rubber duck?! A child can > >>understand provided any concepts used are within his/her mental age. > > > >So can a rubber duck understand any concepts within its mental age. > >But none are. That's the difference. > > > > I am distinguishing between the two. Obviously Edwardo does not understand > English that well. Maybe I should thrown an "even" in there. However, the > rubber duck is important. It's not a term I came up with, as I am sure many > of you know. Though I would like propose a new term: shit programming. It > happens on the toilet. AKA "the aha moment".
Explaining the plot to a rubber duck is one of the techniques fictino writers sometimes use when figuring out where a novel is going. It's not about whether the duck understands, It's about organising the writer's thoughts. -- hendrikk _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
