What a computer really is ? A gentle reminder :)

I reached to this awesome blog post and video via Kevin Lindsey’s tweet (and a couple of redirection):

real pixel coding

We tend to forget that behind the multimedia experience, it is all numbers when it comes to computer. It takes no time to break the illusion as the video demonstrates -: if you remember the machine codes of CPU instructions, you can write code using the Paint program !

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FvS_DG8yIqQ&w=512&h=332]

Interestingly, Paul Graham has written a great post, comparing Painters and Hackers, but he was not talking about hacking using Paint !