Brilliant. I always liked to see programming as a kind of Hermetic magic (you write incantations, and they do something for you). But I never went as far as t

Brilliant. I always liked to see programming as a kind of Hermetic magic (you write incantations, and they do something for you). But I never went as far as to think about schools of magic. I have one issue with your classification however: I can't see where I fit: first, I have little mana. Second, I find alteration magic extremely difficult. I simply cannot comprehend more than the smaller artefacts, especially when they have flaws, or when scrolls about them are scarce. The USSM[1] web site compiler probably represents me best. I wanted to solve the following constraints: control over CSS and HTML, clean URLs, comments are optional. I looked around, heard about Jekill, read some scrolls, and then immediately thought "scrap that, I can do simpler". The current result is less than a 10 feet scroll (~350 lines), and I plan to shrink it further. Overall, I am obsessed with systematically crafting the smallest artefact that could possibly work. I love the UNIX philosophy: it let me activate extremely powerful artefacts with very little mana of my own. More often than not, I only have to craft a small ring to bind them all to great effect. My ideal would be something like the STEPS project. And I don't know where it could possibly fit: it looks like powerful creation magic, only with next to no mana. [1]: http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm/ http://www.loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm/