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		5hoom on Oct 20, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Signs that you are a bad programmer That's an interesting point. I know that when I'm in the flow coding, there is a sort of Tick:the-program-does-this, Tock:the-program-does-that stepwise execution of the code in my head. There are many answers as to what the hardware is actually doing with the instructions, but more generally what exactly is the name of an imaginary discrete state of a program that currently only exists in a coders head?

JonnieCache on Oct 20, 2011 [–]

>but more generally what exactly is the name of an imaginary discrete state of a program that currently only exists in a coders head?

This is what I'm trying to get at. There isn't one is there? It's weird.

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