Curt wrote: > One "programming" example given on that same Wikipedia page > was that if you applied an update operation to Lutz > Mueller's email address in a database (*ich habe > Kopfschmerzen*!) that same update applied a second or third > time (ad infinitum) would produce identical results.
Yeah, but the same thing applied in the same context _always_ produce the same result in computing, this property is called determinism. The Eagle has landed, maybe, but my computer is still deterministic, thanks god :) In programming the focus is perhaps better, for something idempotent, something like: Do it the first time. Don't screw it up the second time? And don't do the computing if it doesn't need to be done? The definition of insanity OTOH is trying the same thing over and over, each time getting a different result ... (General Lee) Or Manny Pacquiao vs Juan Manuel Márquez I-IV ... -- underground experts united https://dataswamp.org/~incal
