By Alvin Alexander. Last updated: December 4, 2023
We often use the term effect when talking about the behavior of our code, like “What is the effect of that operation?” or, when debugging, “Doing that shouldn’t have an effect, what’s going on?”, where “what’s going on?” is most likely replaced with an expletive. But what is an effect? Can we talk about effects in precise ways, in order to write better programs that we can better understand?
