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Re:Demo or Die (1995) by Cthulhu_ on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @08:31AM (#25045689)
And a level / plane of software development very far removed from my day-to-day. I wouldn't know how to draw a square in any language I know of, let alone the craziness they end up building!
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Re:Demo or Die (1995) by pjc50 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @10:05AM (#25046736)
These days, "draw a square" takes pages of boilerplate while the fancy graphics fit in an incredibly dense line of maths.
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Re:Demo or Die (1995) by test1_1234 on Tuesday November 10, 2020 @09:54AM (#25046604)
Surely you can at least draw a square whose sides are horizontal and vertical?
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