目的
Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?
Often it is the means that justify the ends: Goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
The goal of computation is the emulation of our synthetic abilities, not the understanding of our analytic ones.
Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written, and another for which it wasn't.
