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I know exactly what you mean. The fact is, every single program you write is going to be executed by a little stateful machine ticking along. So if your program
by sirclueless 15y ago
I know exactly what you mean. The fact is, every single program you write is going to be executed by a little stateful machine ticking along. So if your programming language doesn't model such a machine and instead uses higher-order constructs, then I will have to mentally translate everything you write to make full sense of it.
- nandemo 15y ago> then I will have to mentally translate everything you write to make full sense of it. But why? A SQL query or a Java/Python/whatever program might get translated to zillions of CMP and JMP instructions, but I see no reason why you should have to do that translation yourself in order to read the code. In fact that would practically preclude the use of any minimally high-level programming language.
- reinhardt 15y agoI believe that was the GP's point, he just omitted the sarcasm tags ;)