There is probably a lens through which arranging train tracks in a toy train set is programming
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Some F# people use “Railway Oriented Programming” as a way to describe monadic error handling:
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(I think it's a pretty sweet analogy!)
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This is using conveyor belts, but still seems kind of related?
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Also yeah, railroad diagrams for describing context-free grammars: