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Jonathan Blow

On The Metal

CHAPTER

Is Your Problem a Global State Manipulation Problem?

A lot of the problems that we need to solve the actual problem is a global state manipulation problem okay. So pretending that it's not by saying like look I have a functional language and I'm going through seven layers of things so that I can avert my eyes sufficiently from the fact that I'm actually just manipulating globals at the end of the day right? "That's just an obfuscation it doesn't actually solve any problems," he says. The task should be to find something that is that that is tightly tailored to that kind of interconnectedness.

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