Another Reason Programming and Writing are More Similar Than You’d Think

Once upon a time, for reasons that I could explain but that don’t make a lot of sense now, I learned to code. Not to the point that I could really use it for anything but enough so that I have a functional understanding of the basics of how code works and some of its abilities and limitations. At the time I’d just finished my honours and I was struck by how similar it was to writing fiction. You have a result in mind and you have to choose your words and line them up in a specific way in order to produce that effect… And then there’s really an excessive amount of attention paid to the punctuation.

I could wax lyrical about this (and have) but right now I am on the wrong side of the country and kinda sleepy, so instead — have this comic.