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Computer language (for ease of discussion let's call this “code”) differs from ordinary human languages (let’s can these “languages”) in that it has no concept of tense. It can still record and transmit past and future states, but it does so by rendering them in the present. | Computer language (for ease of discussion let's call this “code”) differs from ordinary human languages (let’s can these “languages”) in that it has no concept of ''tense''. It can still record and transmit past and future states, but it does so by rendering them in the present. | ||
The present tense is different from the past or the future because it addresses an infinitesimal instant having no duration in time. A given object in the present tense there cannot contradict itself. It can only have one state. | The present tense is different from the past or the future because it addresses an infinitesimal instant having no duration in time. A given object in the present tense there cannot contradict itself. It can only have one state. | ||
Say Switch A has two possible states: On and Off: to describe the state of that switch at any time T, a computer language would describe them thus: <br> | Say Switch A has two possible states: On and Off: to describe the state of that switch at any time T, a computer language would describe them thus: <br> | ||