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by CapstanRoller
676 days ago
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Anarchism isn't a belief, but rather a political-philosophical framework with some very specifically-defined foundational aspects. Imagine discussing math and programming with someone who insists that pi=3 and GOTO is the best control flow mechanism. |
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a) A friend made their pile developing Atari 2600 cartridges. In those days, doing a pythagorean distance calculation would've been way too expensive (especially as they had to work in between scan lines), so in their programs hit regions were octagonal, which is not pi=3, but not far off from pi=6.
b) As someone who generates object code, GOTO is the best control flow mechanism in that domain. [see also "Lambda: the ultimate GOTO" (1977) https://dspace.mit.edu/handle/1721.1/5753 ]