They were just two of many, but before you know it, they’ll be considered opposing concepts. Original source Facebook
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A and B are not originally opposing concepts, but as they are used in opposition to each other, some people interpret them as if they were the exact opposite concept (idea).
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There was a time when “ROM/RAM” could be equated with “rewritable” and “pass-by-value/pass-by-reference” with “whether changes within a function affect outside the function”.
- When you try to interpret that new reality in the old framework, you’re forced to make a weird classification.
- Even the difference between cross-valued and call by reference (computer) was not originally a concept of conflict, but merely two of the many ways of passing arguments. However, when people start saying “Is this passing by value or by reference?
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Technological advances will result in items that are not well classified in Framework of the past.
- ROM(Read-only Memory)
- Since PROM(Programmable ROM) was invented in 1956 and [EPROM https://en.wikipedia.org/ wiki/EPROM](Erasable PROM) was created in 1971, so “ROM” was already used to mean “nonvolatile memory” rather than “nonrewritable memory” by this time. As a result of the cost of rewriting becoming cheaper and cheaper through technological evolution, in 1977, “Electrically Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory” [EEPROM https://en.wikipedia. org/wiki/EEPROM] was born.
- EEPROM.
- Erasable without the need for UV (using ROM Writer, which can create high voltages).”
- Erasable at the same voltage as when driven (by making your own high voltage with a charge pump).”
- There are two levels of
- When “EEPROM that does not require UV but requires physical work such as erasing and rewriting by hand” became “EEPROM that can be erased and rewritten only by electronic operation” due to technological progress, “Oh, is this read-only memory? I begin to feel a strong sense of discomfort.
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