Laziness and weak connections makes sense as differentiators.
However I'm not sure Excel is such a great illustration in that case, as it's neither lazy nor weakly connected; at least at the surface.
However I'm not sure Excel is such a great illustration in that case, as it's neither lazy nor weakly connected; at least at the surface.
I distinctly remember being amazed that it would just iterate until it reached equilibrium (maybe we had to change some setting somewhere first though, I never really used Excel before or after that). I think you could change a value mid-iteration, and the grid would just continue on with the previously calculated cell values, instead of start over from scratch. That's basically "weakly connected", isn't it?
(anyway, the real challenge is to find a practical use for Excel's hidden fractal powers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-Fa6HtvGtQ)