...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...
Sushi, eh? I like tuna and salmon, so is it anything at all like that?
ReplyDelete@Jeff Roberts:
ReplyDeleteYes and no...there are flavors and textures in the sushi that simply aren't there once the fish is cooked.
Good sushi is very fresh and doesn't taste "fishy" at all, and it's tremendous with a dip of soy sauce and wasabi.
Every time I'd eat a bite, Joey and I would grin and say 'waaaaSABI'.
Wasabi is good.