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How come? It would illustrate the notion that to a machine, everything is a value, and that (abstract) references get translated into manipulations of values (a

by jhgb 5y ago

How come? It would illustrate the notion that to a machine, everything is a value, and that (abstract) references get translated into manipulations of values (and not even always in the same way).

Koshkin 5y ago
Because "on a machine level" and "to a machine" are two different things (the former referring to human understanding).
- jhgb 5y ago
  They're absolutely the same thing to me.