[Tutor] Requesting help

dn PythonList at DancesWithMice.info
Sun Apr 3 19:23:41 EDT 2022


On 04/04/2022 11.14, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Apr 2022 09:29:02 +1200, dn <PythonList at DancesWithMice.info>
> declaimed the following:
> 
>>
>> When people of @Dennis and my vintage first started-out in computing, a
>> popular mantra was "Input, Process, Output".
>>
> 	<heh> ... and so many of my school assignments tended lo literally look
> like:
> 
> 	call loaddata
> 	call compute
> 	call saveresults
> 
> (FORTRAN, using error-prone named common blocks to pass large amounts of
> data around)


Looks so familiar!

However, if the OP is relying upon globals (or even mutables!) within
his/her functions, that'll lead to a whole raft of (other) problems!


Do you know - as I age (and age), when I look back, I find that even
nostalgia ain't as good as it used to be...

-- 
Regards,
=dn


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