Shawn Hartsock

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Castles in the Air

By Shawn Hartsock (author)

Originally published .

Republished from Thoughts and Ideas. The original writing is preserved; topic and concept suggestions are generated metadata, not part of the original article.

If the poet creates castles in the air then the programmer creates castles in the air made of air. The programmer works in a rarefied space where the interplay of thought and language are the only limitations.

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