Re: [FWP] Goal oriented programming

["Edward M. Perry" <eperry@learjet.com>]

> You are making the mistake of thinking that order of execution has
> any relation to "importance".  It does not, as illustrated by the
> following program:
> 
> 	$| = 1;
> 	unlink '/vmunix';
> 
> "importance" is only meaningful for humans; the computer simply does
> what it's told.  Thankfully we have a programming language which allows
> the human to express the algorithm in a way that can include emphasis
> of "importance".  Perl works for us, instead of us having to bend
> to Perl.  (Only true to an extent, of course; but to a greater extent
> than other popular languages.)

You would have really convinced me if you wrote a conditional statement
where the conditional was processed last, but you wrote two unrelated 
statements. So what?

I must be totally unique because when I write or analyze a program,
I pretend to be the computer and attempt to mentally process it in the
same order that the computer would.

I must be a dullard because I find it easier to do this if the instructions
are in the order they should be processed.

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