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Judge Alsup is very thorough and wants no successful appeal of his decision | 697 comments | Create New Account
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Judge Alsup is very thorough and wants no successful appeal of his decision
Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, May 08 2012 @ 05:59 PM EDT
Actually, the legal terms come from (very old) programming paradigms that all
professional computing experts can and should recognize. They were coined in
the 80's and were more-or-less state of the art terms at the time. They now
stand as a proxy for any non-literal elements of a "computer program",
no matter the programming paradigm.

If you're a (young) programmer you might not recognize structure and sequence
for the same reasons that it took humans a long time to recognize that air is
substantial and made up of a bunch of different gasses: it's (usually)
everywhere and there is hardly any reason for you to think twice about it. I
would hope that you would recognize organization, though.

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