On Jul 28, 2011, at 5:31 PM, Tom Jeffries wrote: > I do think > it's important to keep in mind the difference between code and data, > and some of the suggestions I got seemed to show some lack of clarity > in that area. Confusing the two may work in certain specific > environments, but it reflects a misunderstanding of the way computers > actually work. I think it's important to have an awareness of the > difference.
Code and data interact in different ways at different levels, and the distinction isn’t always clear-cut. In some languages it’s very blurry indeed (LISP, shell scripts, machine code). Object-oriented languages have specific ways code and data combine, functional languages have others. It sounded from some of your earlier messages* like you may not be used to object-oriented languages (or maybe just used to very rigid ones like C++ or Java), so some things you interpreted as unclear might just reflect a different way of thinking than you’re used to. —Jens *(In particular, it seemed like you were using ‘function’ and ‘variable’ in ways that didn’t reflect what was actually going on in the program)
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