The reading for this week was a little bit verbose for me. It was interesting to read more about Ramon Llull and his ironic death by stoning-- especially after the class discussion about his life, but when Cramer got into more detail about how Lull's alphabet for his ars is similiar to programming language, I got a bit lost (myself being quite ignorant in the ways of programming).

I also found Comenius's Orbis Pictus to be an interesting idea. The concept of pictures being a universal language and using that to bridge the gap between different written and spoken languages is a really cool idea.

Overall what I gained most out of the reading was the knowledge that many computer systems and programs date back to and are the result of bizarre, early, religious tools and artifacts. It's interesting to think that the systems people came up with, that later led to the developement of the computer, were first created in an attempt to better understand God.