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Comment author: Tyrrell_McAllister 18 February 2011 09:18:11PM *  0 points [-]

Which quickly generalizes to any sort of physical making - woodworking, metalworking, etc.

Knitting is more like programming than woodworking and metalworking are, at least if you are designing your own knitting patterns. Knitting is a digitizable activity. To design a knitting pattern is to create an executable digital script, whose success is subject to digitizable constraints.