👉 Referring computing, also known as referencing or referential computing, is a paradigm in computer science where computational tasks are expressed and executed through references to other computations or data structures rather than through direct manipulation of their internal states. In this model, instead of a program directly modifying a data structure or variable, it specifies the location or reference to that data and then performs operations on it through a call to another program or function. This approach enhances modularity, reusability, and composability of code by allowing components to be independently developed and combined without needing to understand their internal workings. Referring computing is particularly useful in distributed systems, functional programming languages, and concurrency models, where it helps manage complexity and improve performance by minimizing direct dependencies and side effects.
