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Not sure if I follow you. I thought a tool != an abstraction According the English dictionary A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas. A tool a
by datascience91 6y ago
Not sure if I follow you. I thought a tool != an abstraction
According the English dictionary
A paradigm is a standard, perspective, or set of ideas.
A tool a piece of equipment == something is concrete
Can a mathematical expression or equation be considered a tool?
- bcrosby95 6y agoPeople regularly say "the right tool for the job". When it comes to software that can mean any decision you make on what to use for solving your problem: language, OS, IDE, editor, architecture, low or high level design, etc.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoYou sound either like English isn't your first language, or like you're taking words far too literally. In the sense we're using, a tool is anything we use to do what we're trying to do. A physical tool is a tool. A software tool is a tool. But if I'm trying to ship something, FedEx and UPS are tools (in this larger sense). So an abstraction, a way of thinking, a way of writing code, is also a tool. I can use FP for the problems that it fits well, and use other ways of programming on other problems. "It's just a tool" means "it's not The One Right Way". Use it when it fits. Don't use it when it doesn't.