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by 6510 2254 days ago
I remember thinking, "oh? this was made by people who can't code!?" then I quit entirely.

Before, stuff would reduce to nothing after use. Will this condition continue to change? Will it stay true? (Remove the check) Will it stay false? (remove that chunk of code) and then remove this.

Sure, it was fun. More important: People wrote things that were truly impressive. Writing something that worked was only the beginning.

Until compilers know which buttons are used most frequently they cant fully optimize. Who knows, maybe one day windos will give me a start menu and allow me to reboot when the application freezes up? Maybe one day text input will have some priority? The bare basics basically?