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lukan on Dec 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: What did Ada Lovelace's program actually do? (2018...

The question to me always was, does it makes sense in the way of, it is intuitivly understandable, or does it only make sense, if it was drilled into you long enough?

(I suspect the latter)

lazide on Dec 17, 2024 [–]

Harder maths are often so inscrutable that single letter variables are also the least of your problems.

lukan on Dec 17, 2024 | [–]

Certainly. But on top of the hard problem, I don't like to be distracted by unreadable code ..

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