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(Genuine architectural terminology)
Consider a tent
The purpose of a tent is to keep the rain out
It has functional and structural members
The tent cloth is a functional member
The cloth is the important part: It keeps the rain out
The tent pole is structural
All it does is hold up the cloth
If you could build the tent without a pole, you would
Program code similarly serves structural and functional purposes
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