Hacking Magic with Lisp and Unix - "Wizards's Bane" (fantasy novel, free)

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http://www.baen.com/library/0671878468/0671878468.htm

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It's pretty old, but some of you might not know this. Amusing story of a computer programmer "summoned" to another world, who tries to use CS to tame the wild magic.

"backslash cd slash grep moira" isn't that much different from "abracadabra alakazam" after all...