may or may not be the right metaphor …
Counting does involve a starting number and […] it is hard to see how we can avoid the conclusion that time must have had a starting unit. In that case, the units would be countable from the first unit onwards, […].
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COUVALIS, George, 2013. Philoponus’s Traversal Argument and the Beginning of Time. Modern Greek Studies (Australia and New Zealand). 2013. No. Special Issue, p. 68–78.
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.
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