Comment by spb

> Part of me looks at this and thinks, "This is preaching to the choir"...because while the engineer in me appreciates all the layers and explorations...It must be incredibly bewildering to anyone who is not a coder, which is the ostensible audience given that the story starts off with, 'We are here because the editor of this magazine asked me, “Can you tell me what code is?”'

I completely agree. I got a third of the way through it before I just couldn't stand the obfuscation and decoration any further.

What's sad (as I [tweeted][1]) was that there's a 1972 article by Stewart Brand, published in Rolling Stone of all places, that does a better job of actually explaining what computers can do, without resorting to jargon and jive: http://stuartpb.github.io/spacewar-article/spacewar.html

[1]: https://twitter.com/stuartpb/status/609035295002984448