the TI-BASIC projectile motion program I'd use in physics tests in hs was highly polished due to my teacher repeatedly forcing me to clear my calculator

why waste time going through the computational motions on paper for a few dozen questions when I could just automate it again?
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RT @rsnous
over time, after tens and hundreds of rewrites, your codebase evolves into this perfect, gemlike thing, a tiny amount of extremely catchy, dense cod…
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