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Re:Signs that you are a bad programmer by 5hoom on Wednesday October 19, 2011 @10:10PM (#3133085)
That's an interesting point.

I know that when I'm in the flow coding, there is a sort of Tick:the-program-does-this, Tock:the-program-does-that stepwise execution of the code in my head.

There are many answers as to what the hardware is actually doing with the instructions, but more generally what exactly is the name of an imaginary discrete state of a program that currently only exists in a coders head?

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Re:Signs that you are a bad programmer by JonnieCache on Thursday October 20, 2011 @06:49AM (#3134253)
>but more generally what exactly is the name of an imaginary discrete state of a program that currently only exists in a coders head?

This is what I'm trying to get at. There isn't one is there? It's weird.

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