Programming = magic

[restless_coder]

Computer programming is the closest thing you're going to get to D&D's arcane wizardry in the real world. This analogy, which I am sure other gamers have explored in the past, though I could find no articles online about it, provides some cool insights and ideas

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[valleyviolet]

I thought immediately of this comic. The gentleman with glasses is a regular academic from our world who was raised to the status of a god of knowledge. :D

http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Gods_of_ArrKelaan/index.php?p=313291

[restless_coder]

Really cool comic! Thanks for the link. I'm going to have to read through all of this now. *shakes fist*