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No - being seduced by power makes sense. Being "seduced to write a book" is odd.
by oarabbus_ 7y ago
No - being seduced by power makes sense. Being "seduced to write a book" is odd.
- adrianmonk 7y agoHis point is that the term "computer language" lured people into anthropomorphizing the process of creating software. In his mind, writing a book called "The Education of a Computer" is a result of falling into that trap. It isn't the writing of the book he thinks she was lured into. It was the error in thinking that (he believed) the book contained. (Note: I've included a lot of stuff like "he believed" and "his point" to emphasize that I don't really buy his thesis. I'm not in his corner when it comes to the idea he's presenting, but I don't see anything wrong with the words he used to present it.)