On 7/8/05, Scott Schultz <scott at cjhunter.com> wrote: > To apply a computer programming metaphor, the rest of the world is > programming in assembler language but Vlad now has an Integrated Development > Environment that lets him see sorcerous "programs" as flow charts. He can > either disrupt the flow chart, or create a new spell from scratch by drawing > the flow chart and letting the IDE (Godslayer) take care of converting it to > assembler. Heh. Everyone else is doing C but Vlad is writing in Python? ObSF: /Wizard's Bane/ by Rick Cook. "All I want from the universe is a few minutes with the source code and a quick recompile." Rick Cook's /Wizard/ books deal with a computer programmer falling into a universe where magic is a lot like assembly language, then destroying the Dark Wizard League by hacking together a high-level magic language and a bunch of daemons. Kind of fun but I don't recommend the fourth book. Max -- Teach him horsemanship, and archery, and to hate every lie. -Herodotus, on raising sons