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?
> 
> So order of execution has no relation to "importance", and therefore
> your claim that "my computer thinks the conditional is more important
> because it processes it first" is bogus, even silly.

Wow, you sure know how to beat a straw man.

> Then presumable you would have a hard time getting your mind around the
> following code:
> 
>   sub foo(@) { print "foo(@_)\n"; () }
>   sub bar(@) { print "bar(@_)\n"; () }
> 
>   {
>     foo 1,
>     bar 2,
>     foo 3,
>     bar 4,
>   }

I understand you can do this, I don't understand why you want to.
Is this you form of job security?

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