...it's all just smoke and mirrors? Ultimately, any program running in 99% of the computers out there today is running the old fetch-execute cycle on a Von Neuman architecture: A processor fetches the next instruction, executes it, stores the result, and goes to the next instruction. Atop that, we've layered: Subroutines, Modules, Functional Programming, Structured Programming, Object-Orientation (Objects, Inheritance, Polymorphism, Composition/Aggregation), Closures, Atoms, Processes, Multithreading, Semaphores, etc. We're desperately trying to make the digital computer be more than the sum of its parts, just as a living human brain is somehow more than a collection of neurons and synapses. We *desperately* want abstractions...need them, in fact. That's the whole point of the progression from bare binary programming, through assembly, to high-level languages, etc.--abstraction. The speed and capacity of computers grows. The speed and capacity of the minds of progra...
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ReplyDeleteSee, I've done that--7 habits of highly effective people, etc.--and still I have to make lists in order to stay on task. :-)
I get distracted too...wow, it's nice outside.
Making lists = good.
ReplyDeleteSaying 100 times a day "I probably should write this down" = bad.
It's OK to *have* a bad memory, it's just criminally insane to walk around thinking it's funny and not compensating in some way (DayTimer, PDA, etc). That's like having no parking brake and doing your shopping in Frisco.
Oops, sorry - pet peeve. I apologize for all the singed eyebrows.
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