A song from "My Fair Lady" came up on the randomplay. Professor Higgins, male chauvinist, is one of those fictional characters that I would like to give a good talking to about his sexism. But the problem with time travel, is that one doesn't have the same context; I started pondering how one could explain "Computer Programmer" to someone from
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Coincidentally, just yesterday evening I was watching the second part of a very good TV documentary called "Order and Disorder", which dealt with this very topic: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01nj44h
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One would have to consider if you are explaining it to someone who travelled forwards or if you'd travelled back. Spoilers! After all the very concept may be enough to trigger ideas that could change the whole course of human history.
Seriously, your first attempt isn't bad but I think you might have to explain a bit better how numbers can represent things. It is sometimes boggling to consider all the complicated things we can do with a machine that only understands the difference between a 1 and a 0.
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