12 Dec
2009
12 Dec
'09
9:36 p.m.
Computers think discretely. Even the OO book is probably not going to recognize the book's every move as it falls into someone's hands, wanders around the library, perhaps sneaks out of the library or is reshelved somewhere else, is checked out and goes across the globe, has the cover torn and then taped together into pretty-good shape... I prefer FP because it acknowledges that computers fundamentally operate like this. They model and approximate situations. Sometimes pretending to be those situations is not the best way to approximate them. ...[tried to give example but I'm too dizzy at the moment from finals-week]