[FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!"

[thompnickson2 at gmail.com]

You are the author! Or may be Glen.  Or maybe all you wizards. An edited volume!

Nick 

Nicholas Thompson
Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology
Clark University
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-----Original Message-----
From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 10:29 AM
To: friam at redfish.com
Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!"

I can't find the book. who is the author? Tried google with quotes around title, it gives no results. without quotes it gives me a long list of irrelevant items.

davew


On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 10:17 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> 
> Dave,
> 
> Yes. 
> 
> ENGINEERING LIFE: What I learned about living from being a programmer.  
> Knopf. New York.  2021.  227 pp.  $45.00
> 
> 
> Nicholas Thompson
> Emeritus Professor of Ethology and Psychology Clark University 
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
>  
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> On Behalf Of Prof David West
> Sent: Tuesday, August 18, 2020 9:24 AM
> To: friam at redfish.com
> Subject: Re: [FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!"
> 
> probably because I misunderstand functional programming.
> 
> Much more interesting question would be your opinion of using 
> coupling/cohesion typologies as metaphors in realms outside of 
> programming.
> 
> davew
> 
> On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 8:59 AM, uǝlƃ ↙↙↙ wrote:
> > I agree completely. But FP also agrees. So it's unclear to me why you 
> > think anyone enamored of it would disagree. I think it's fair to say 
> > that the whole point of FP is to make focusing on behavior a *safe* 
> > thing to do. But to be clear, I'm not enamored with FP. It's a tool 
> > like any other, apt in some circumstances, abusive in others. Those 
> > who would trade expressiveness for safety deserve neither.
> > 
> > On 8/17/20 7:36 PM, Prof David West wrote:
> > > *[The following sentence is just to annoy glen and jon, who, I 
> > > believe, are enamored of functional programming.]*
> > > 
> > > /Of course, personally, I think all of this is nonsense and that the 
> > > only criteria that should be used to decompose complex systems or to 
> > > design programming modules, is //_behavior_//./
> > > 
> > > *[End trolling]*
> > 
> > --
> > ↙↙↙ uǝlƃ
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