lol and here I was trying to be simple and not get into states wich is a cluster IMO. but yeah that is a good point the computer needs to know how and wen to bake cookies and set the timer (states)
Now look you've just made him more confused! :P Just to make this reeely go more off the rails: Seriusly IF we want stuff to run in the web is having a state still needed I thought that was one of the whole pissing contest between Mozzila's X-Tag (states are baked in somehow) or WebCompenents (googles mess that has them (sort of) As I undestand it X-Tag (for example) somehow real time asks if it's possible to do something before assuming it can. Or is that just a limit of computer languages? On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 9:05 PM, Russell Standish <li...@hpcoders.com.au> wrote: > Not sure about "utility"/"tool", but an object is distinguished from a > function by having state. Call an object's method, and the method's > scope is populated by the object's data members, which of course, > differ from object to object. > > By contrast a function either has no state (pure function), or its > state is global (same for every function invocation). > > Cheers > > On Tue, Jul 17, 2018 at 10:06:57PM -0400, Nick Thompson wrote: > > Dave, and anybody else who wants to play. > > > > > > > > I have always been puzzled by the question of how one distinguishes an > > object in object programming from a utility in DOS or a tool in Matlab. > Or > > any mathematical function, for that matter. You give it what it needs, > and > > it gives you what it's supposed to, and you don't give a damn how it > works. > > > > > > > > Please don't yell at me. > > > > > > > > Nick > > > > > > > > Nicholas S. Thompson > > > > Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Biology > > > > Clark University > > > > http://home.earthlink.net/~nickthompson/naturaldesigns/ > > > > > > > > > ============================================================ > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove > > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > Dr Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) > Principal, High Performance Coders > Visiting Senior Research Fellow hpco...@hpcoders.com.au > Economics, Kingston University http://www.hpcoders.com.au > ------------------------------------------------------------ > ---------------- > > ============================================================ > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Meets Fridays 9a-11:30 at cafe at St. John's College > to unsubscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ by Dr. Strangelove >
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