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Often, we need to make computers do a list of things.

How often do we need to do those things in a specific dependency order? How often do we need to simply get those things done, regardless of order?



All the time? Human beings, on average, are more apt to think imperatively by default than otherwise, unless they've been explicitly trained to think otherwise.




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