Half a Century of Crappy Computing

Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing by rauljara on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @08:58PM (#1163127)

Anyone want to explain that diagram of the while loop to me? The author apparently believes it is so self evident that he doesn't have to explain what any of the symbols or colors mean.

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Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing by miriam on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @09:16PM (#1163156)

http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/components.htm#Types

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Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing by anthonyb on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @09:22PM (#1163171)

Still doesn't really help. What's the while loop actually doing? Where's the data being stored, and how do you get it out?

Similarly for his quicksort example (http://www.rebelscience.org/Cosas/quicksort.htm) - from what I can see, there's no means to input or output whatever you're sorting - that part is all internal, and the only accessible parts are 'start' and 'done'.

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Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing by adriand on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @10:05PM (#1163249)

I think you need to drag your understanding and drop it onto his concepts. You're far too bogged down with all of this "seeing". When are you people going to stop just seeing, and start truly knowing? Drag and drop your mind. It's the way of the future.

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Re:Half a Century of Crappy Computing by miriam on Tuesday March 02, 2010 @11:13PM (#1163350)

The way I understand it, components can share data.

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