[HN Gopher] A Well-Woven Tale: The fabric of the modern world
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       A Well-Woven Tale: The fabric of the modern world
        
       Author : drdee
       Score  : 29 points
       Date   : 2021-07-09 04:55 UTC (2 days ago)
        
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       | danidiaz wrote:
       | > Textile terminology proliferates throughout the English
       | language.
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       | I think "seam" ("a place where two parts of the code meet and
       | where something else can be injected") is a felicitous metaphor.
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       | "thread" as well. Wikipedia credits the term to Victor A.
       | Vyssotsky
       | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thread_(computing)#History
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       | > (1) Dennis and Van Horn [11] have used the words "locus of
       | control within an instruction sequence." to describe a process;
       | the alternative term "thread" (suggested by V. Vyssotsky) is
       | suggestive of the abstract concept embodied in the term
       | "process."
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       | Was it chosen because it suggests a linear sequence of executing
       | instructions, or perhaps because a thread that appears and
       | disappears in the fabric with every stitch resembles a process
       | getting and losing hold of the CPU?
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       | I wish programming had more sewing and textile metaphors and less
       | architecture-related ones.
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       | We could begin with associating the idea of "patterns" in
       | programming with sewing patterns rather than with architectural
       | ones. They actually fit the former better.
        
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