Tony Morris

@djspiewak @darinmorrison I just want to clear on your position. It is very obvious a beginner mistake. I'd rather just learn it and move on

@dibblego @darinmorrison My position is that the runtime which gives meaning to a program is part of the program.

@djspiewak @darinmorrison I can see how you might think this is true but it cannot make sense no matter how I look at it.

@dibblego @darinmorrison Drawing the line at runtime is very interesting when thinking about things from a language design perspective.

@djspiewak @darinmorrison so I can point to anything and say "that is a program" and this is useful?

@dibblego @darinmorrison No, perhaps not useful, but it’s a definition, you can’t just dismiss it because you see no immediate use.

@djspiewak @darinmorrison I dismiss it because it is arbitrary nonsense.

@dibblego @darinmorrison ALL of it is arbitrary nonsense. It’s just that some of it is *useful* arbitrary nonsense.