Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
To make a computer do something that would take a human a long period of time was always interesting.
Look at what Silicon Valley has done - the advance of computers.
Once you have a computer that can do a few things - strictly speaking, one that has a certain 'sufficient set' of basic procedures - it can do basically anything any other computer can do. This, loosely, is the basis of the great principle of 'Universality'.
The idea behind digital computers may be explained by saying that these machines are intended to carry out any operations which could be done by a human computer.
Perhaps one day we will have machines that can cope with approximate task descriptions, but in the meantime, we have to be very prissy about how we tell computers to do things.
Let us change our traditional attitude to the construction of programs. Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do.
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