I can't find the book. who is the author? Tried google with quotes around title, it gives no results. without quotes it gives me a long list of irrelevant items.
davew On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 10:17 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > Dave, > > Yes. > > ENGINEERING LIFE: What I learned about living from being a programmer. > Knopf. New York. 2021. 227 pp. $45.00 > > > Nicholas Thompson > Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology > Clark University > [email protected] > https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/ > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Friam <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Prof David West > Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 9:24 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!" > > probably because I misunderstand functional programming. > > Much more interesting question would be your opinion of using > coupling/cohesion typologies as metaphors in realms outside of > programming. > > davew > > On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 8:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote: > > I agree completely. But FP also agrees. So it's unclear to me why you > > think anyone enamored of it would disagree. I think it's fair to say > > that the whole point of FP is to make focusing on behavior a *safe* > > thing to do. But to be clear, I'm not enamored with FP. It's a tool > > like any other, apt in some circumstances, abusive in others. Those > > who would trade expressiveness for safety deserve neither. > > > > On 8/17/20 7:36 PM, Prof David West wrote: > > > *[The following sentence is just to annoy glen and jon, who, I > > > believe, are enamored of functional programming.]* > > > > > > /Of course, personally, I think all of this is nonsense and that the > > > only criteria that should be used to decompose complex systems or to > > > design programming modules, is //_behavior_//./ > > > > > > *[End trolling]* > > > > -- > > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn > > GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe > http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > > > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . > FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv > Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam > un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com > archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ > FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/ > - .... . -..-. . -. -.. -..-. .. ... -..-. .... . .-. . FRIAM Applied Complexity Group listserv Zoom Fridays 9:30a-12p Mtn GMT-6 bit.ly/virtualfriam un/subscribe http://redfish.com/mailman/listinfo/friam_redfish.com archives: http://friam.471366.n2.nabble.com/ FRIAM-COMIC http://friam-comic.blogspot.com/
