One of my perennial favorite cartoons is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and I always find it humorous how much unicorn magic in that show does behave like computer code.
A spell must be written down in at least one place before it can be cast, although if this "source" exists, it can be cast from memory. (Episode 65, 116/117, 167)
Destroying the last copy of the "source" means the spell can no longer be cast. (Episode 116/117)
Running a spell without verifying what it will do can have unexpected results. (Episode 65)
Unicorn magic is exactly as literal as computer code, and can have unintended results; outcomes have nothing to do with the intentions, only with the technique. (Episode 29, 55, 138, 145)
An object (relic) can contain specific magical properties or spells, but those magical properties can only be used in specific ways. You can't make a relic do something it was never intended to do. This is not unlike "compiled code". (Episode 118/119, 194/195, 209)
Unicorn magic "just works", although it must be powered either individually by a unicorn, stored energy in a relic, or another energy source. It's not impossible for non-unicorns to use unicorn magic, but that magic will behave the same no matter who is using it.
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One of my perennial favorite cartoons is My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, and I always find it humorous how much unicorn magic in that show does behave like computer code.
A spell must be written down in at least one place before it can be cast, although if this "source" exists, it can be cast from memory. (Episode 65, 116/117, 167)
Destroying the last copy of the "source" means the spell can no longer be cast. (Episode 116/117)
Running a spell without verifying what it will do can have unexpected results. (Episode 65)
Unicorn magic is exactly as literal as computer code, and can have unintended results; outcomes have nothing to do with the intentions, only with the technique. (Episode 29, 55, 138, 145)
An object (relic) can contain specific magical properties or spells, but those magical properties can only be used in specific ways. You can't make a relic do something it was never intended to do. This is not unlike "compiled code". (Episode 118/119, 194/195, 209)
Unicorn magic "just works", although it must be powered either individually by a unicorn, stored energy in a relic, or another energy source. It's not impossible for non-unicorns to use unicorn magic, but that magic will behave the same no matter who is using it.