[FRIAM] "Brown eggs are local eggs and local eggs are FRESH!"
Prof David West
profwest at fastmail.fm
Tue Aug 18 12:48:30 EDT 2020
clever
On Tue, Aug 18, 2020, at 10:33 AM, thompnickson2 at gmail.com wrote:
> 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
> ThompNickSon2 at gmail.com
> https://wordpress.clarku.edu/nthompson/
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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]*
> > >
> > > --
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