Mahmoud Sakr's Blog
When you’ve been using an imperative paradigm for so long, it’s extremely difficult to adopt to a new paradigm all of a sudden. To be totally honest before attending the Concepts of Programming Languages course, I didn’t ever imagine there’s anything else other than imperative programming — which I primarily called programming.
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When working on something, it’s very natural to set yourself a deadline to stick to. When working on someone else’s something, it’s very natural that they set you a deadline to stick to. When going to school, working at a company, there’s always something you have to hand by a maximum time, still, called a deadline.
I’m sure everyone has got this vision at some point that life is nothing but different routes you can make. All along there are just different branches and you have to make choices. Some people are good at looking ahead of time to see the branches they will make to reach where they want to land, others are not so far-sighted and see nearer, and the variations are too much. That is a very good thing because talking from experience, long-sight is a skill you acquire with time. The more branches you take the further you can look, because with time it will eventually come to light that simply many branches end up the same way.