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Re: Evaluate or execute?
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Tim Cross |
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Re: Evaluate or execute? |
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Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:04:26 +1100 |
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"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online> writes:
> Aloha all,
>
> The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms
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> synonyms for running a bit of source code and gathering its result. Is there
> a
> useful distinction that this non-software engineer is missing? Or, are the
> terms simply synonymous?
>
I suspect that in some domains, there is probably a subtle difference
between evaluate and execute, but when reading information on org, I
think your pretty safe to consider them as synonymous. You need to
evaluate a statement in order to execute it.