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I'm not so sure. He seems a bit too enthusiastic to me; slightly artificial.
by dhaivatpandya 13y ago
I'm not so sure. He seems a bit too enthusiastic to me; slightly artificial.
- vijucat 13y agoWhat if turns out to be exactly like that in real life, too? :-) I suppose it would cause some cognitive dissonance. One question I had while thinking about the (purely hypothetical) dissonance was : "Is he being overly enthusiastic, or is my low-key behaviour a subtle result of years and years of programming and debugging in an imperative model, where I literally have to internalize the computer, the Von Neumann architecture, and did I somehow end up being an unemotional VERSION of IT, a robot-human hybrid?!". A horrific thought, eh?! :-)
- primitivesuave 13y agoMind blown!
- omarrr 13y agoMind blown!
- girvo 13y agoI was not expecting to read a comment like that on my Wednesday afternoon. Certainly thought provoking ;)
- vijucat 13y agoThank you! :-)
- eru 13y agoJust the opposite: Von Neumann programming would make you overly excitable, what with all these state changes and side effects. Pure functional programming leads to immutable calm.
- vijucat 13y agoHa ha, thanks for the interesting perspective + play on words; "immutable calm" is a gem. You've got me worried, though; I AM overly excitable! Luckily, that excitement is due to the elegance of my / the solutions to the Scala programming assignments in the ongoing Coursera courses, so there may be some "immutable calm" in my near future. :-)