Timeline for Definition of "state"
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| Aug 15, 2018 at 5:08 | vote | accept | hotpaw2 | ||
| May 25, 2012 at 13:02 | comment | added | reinierpost | I think this is the best answer, if rephrased to be intelligible to a nonprogrammer. Say: all activities handle things and/or information. This happens in three ways: 1) any activity may take or use or read something: its input; 2) it may produce or write something: its output; 3) while in progress it may hold, keep, memorize, store something: its state. For most computer programs, all input, output and state consists of information, while for other types of activities (say, cooking) physical objects are usually involved as well. | |
| May 25, 2012 at 9:16 | history | answered | phant0m | CC BY-SA 3.0 |