Those Matrix movies were cool and all, not to mention the fight scenes and futuristic war settings kicked some serious tail. But just remember the fact about those movies, the one true realization of the “Matrix”. It’s as simple as the popular screensaver we all have seen and for which the movies are known. The familiar green lines of ‘code’ endlessly splitting and forming like technical wallpaper on a cyberspace wall.

Those films are all about coding–understanding programming language, or to be more specific, computer language.

Would you believe computers can ‘talk’? Makes the “Matrix” that much more interesting now, doesn’t it?

It’s that computer language that allows your desktop or laptop to successful run programs, applications, accessories, games, utilities, processes, you name it. Everything. From the moment you turn your computer on, it’s communicating with itself to run the operating system, test the memory, open up start-up applications, etc etc. Generally, a ‘compiler’ and ‘linker’ inside your system is used by a computer to in essence translate the instructions latent in any program. So it can be understood that even programs can ‘talk’. Yes, it’s true. What the computer does then is have the instructions from any given program translated to a ‘machine code’ that the operating system can then run right on the desktop. The final product of an engineered electrical conversation, much like how Neo would move around the Matrix and manipulate the Coding to suit his fancy. Basically the same thing.

If you understand computer language well enough, the fact is you can actually create these ‘worlds’ people would see in games for the PC, or Playstation and Wii and XBOX consoles, by simply inserting lines of code similar to what you’d see in “The Matrix”. (Only if you look closely, the “Matrix” code is basically an alien language! But that’s beside the point.)

You can then finally say the wonderful line everyone loves, knowing computer language…. THERE IS NO SPOON.