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Re^2: Why do we like to program?

by pobocks (Chaplain)
on Nov 10, 2008 at 07:13 UTC ( [id://722566]=note: print w/replies, xml ) Need Help??


in reply to Re: Why do we like to program?
in thread Why do we like to program?

Funny thing... it turns out that, although they are driven by nature to collect and hide the nuts, squirrels have no instinct that helps them find the nuts later.

Sometimes they get lucky, but mostly they just fail.

Apply to programming, perhaps reuse of code. ;-)

for(split(" ","tsuJ rehtonA lreP rekcaH")){print reverse . " "}print "\b.\n";

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Re^3: Why do we like to program?
by Jenda (Abbot) on Nov 10, 2008 at 12:34 UTC

    They may fail to find the nuts they hid themselves, but they may find those hidden by other squirrels and they will find the tree that may grow out of a well hidden nut. So hiding and failing to find the nuts is good for the nut producing trees which is in turn good for the nut eating animals. Imagine they could find all they hid ... what would new trees grow out of? And what would the squirrels eat once the current generation of trees grow too old to produce nuts? :-)

    How does that relate to programming ... maybe ... what would we do if the code we once wrote could always be reused?

Re^3: Why do we like to program?
by Your Mother (Archbishop) on Nov 10, 2008 at 18:19 UTC

    An interesting side note: they pretend to hide nuts too.

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