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0 pointssomewhereoutth3y ago0 comments

Indeed - but with text programs you are forced to provide a name (hopefully a meaningful one!)

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Honestly dithering over what to name something is the biggest timesuck, I wish I was unprincipled enough to just name them a,b,c... maybe use a drawing of a flow chart as the readme.md xD

  There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

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jazzyjackson3y ago

Honestly dithering over what to name something is the biggest timesuck, I wish I was unprincipled enough to just name them a,b,c... maybe use a drawing of a flow chart as the readme.md xD

  There are 2 hard problems in computer science: cache invalidation, naming things, and off-by-1 errors.

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