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From: "Rudolf Adamkovič" <salutis@me.com>
To: orgmode <emacs-orgmode@gnu.org>
Cc: "Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online>
Subject: Re: Evaluate or execute?
Date: Sun, 24 Oct 2021 22:14:03 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <m2zgqyuqno.fsf@me.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87cznup5h3.fsf@tsdye.online>

"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online> writes:

> Or, are the terms simply synonymous?

Tom, have no idea about "Worg", but in computer science, one evaluates expressions to their values and executes statements for their side effects. For instance, the expression 1 + 1 evaluates to the value of 2, while the statement "print 2" causes a side-effect of displaying 2.

Rudy

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2021-10-24 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-10-24 19:50 Evaluate or execute? Thomas S. Dye
2021-10-24 20:04 ` Tim Cross
2021-10-24 20:05 ` Joost Kremers
2021-10-24 20:14 ` Rudolf Adamkovič [this message]
2021-10-24 20:31 ` Thomas S. Dye

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