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		eximius on Aug 17, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Eve Version 0 Sounds like Functional Programming might make a lot of sense to them (operating on transformations and whatnot)

dang on Aug 17, 2015 [–]

There are definitely some symmetries there, but also differences. These users don't think so abstractly. They get their computation working on one set of numbers and then, if they need to reuse it, copy-paste and modify.

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