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are fundamentally different than symbols, containers have a physical presence.

[…] the Pile object, and closed with the question, where does its z, which we will associate with the x- and y-coordinate at hand, come from? post => Combinative Pointer

This is an interesting presentation from Bret Victor, with some great ideas for how we can support new kinds of data-driven visualisation in software design (with many implications for the design of other ‘programming’ tools): …

The idea is to list one hundred curious things about programming. These can be taken on faith. In some languages they are true. In other languages, no. Developing a sense of what might and might not be true is the part of programming that is rarely taught, probably because the inconsistency is an embarrassment.

> A Symbol can influence Computation