You can think of the computer representation of functions as a leaky abstraction as the statefulness of reality leaks into the virtual world. There are languag

You can think of the computer representation of functions as a leaky abstraction as the statefulness of reality leaks into the virtual world. There are languages that take advantage of this leakage by allowing you to pass functions around as parameters or aka first class functions. I'm sure you've seen this and used it as it's pretty common now.