Christopher Smith wrote:
James G. Sack (jim) wrote:
"I probably didn't capture it well and Alan wasn't specific, but two
things I understood he thought ought to be taught first were parallelism
and loose coupling. He mentioned that the Internet is more about those
two things that it is about data structures and algorithms."
Interestingly, those were pretty much what first and second year
computer science (admittedly with data structures and algorithms
trickled in) programs at the schools I went to were about.
You know, I love this. Everybody talks about the "loose coupling" of
the internet.
It is--in places.
Unfortunately, everybody forgets that TCP/IP is two state machines on
different computers that are in *absolute lockstep* with one another.
Not exactly loose coupling ...
-a
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