News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming problems [pdf]. Parent comment

Re:Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming proble... by njharman on Saturday April 16, 2016 @12:28PM (#11511160)
Adding a variable is creating state. Defeating "past tense without state."

What you described, has ever, has recently seems like classical finite state machine.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:Study of non-programmers' solutions to programming proble... by andrewflnr on Saturday April 16, 2016 @01:53PM (#11511551)
The entire point is the model presented to the programmer, not the guts. Of course it's implemented in terms of state. Computing hardware is stateful.
[ Parent | on HN ]