Hmm, how strange. I thought it was Illinois Institute of Technology.
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Monday 31st March 2014 11:31 GMT Anonymous Coward
Confusing terminology
"The data persists and has state".
Erm, isn't that a tautology? (With respect to stored data, at any rate). To say data "persists" means that it is stored reliably, and can be retrieved whenever needed. "State" is a term often used to describe data or information, especially when contrasted with "behaviour". Thus, in an object-oriented language or system, methods implement behaviour while attributes and internal data comprise state.
If this statement is meaningful, a brief explanation would be helpful.
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