[djedr]

The article mentions SICP aka the wizard book. In it, there are a lot of metaphors pertaining to magic and spirits, which IMO makes the book much better than if they weren't there. One of the authors of the book, Hal Abelson, famously said:

> There's a good part of Computer Science that's like magic. Unfortunately there's a bad part of Computer Science that's like religion.

This points to perhaps a useful distinction that is to be made here between religion (as in tribalism which leads to holy wars) and mysticism/spirituality/magic (as in deep fascination in search of ultimate truth).