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Re: Evaluate or execute?


From: Tim Cross
Subject: Re: Evaluate or execute?
Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2021 07:04:26 +1100
User-agent: mu4e 1.6.7; emacs 27.2

"Thomas S. Dye" <tsd@tsdye.online> writes:

> Aloha all,
>
> The org manual and various documents on Worg appear to use the subject terms 
> as
> 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. 



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