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by weeksie 3148 days ago
It's definitely an old metaphor. SICP is the "Wizard Book" after all, and IIRC they even used the term "incantations" to describe commands and programming constructs at some points, though it's been well over a decade since I've leafed through it.
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We conjure the spirits of the computer with our spells.