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Re:BANCStar (2000) by taneq on Sunday July 18, 2021 @05:51AM (#27871768)
Pretty hard to write self documenting code when all you have are single letter variables and the language doesn’t support comments.
Re:BANCStar (2000) by praptak on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:20AM (#27872312)
Letter variables? Luxury! One of the calculator had ops like STO, RCL, PAU, GTO, GSB and some numbered "cells", where you could store the result of the calculation.

The other had ops like '74' which were coordinates of the key which activated the given function.

Getting the full screen of the ZX Spectrum surely spoiled me :)

Re:BANCStar (2000) by avmich on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:38AM (#27872418)
Yeah, that's why math doesn't have self-documenting theorems, right?
Re:BANCStar (2000) by taneq on Sunday July 18, 2021 @08:42AM (#27872443)
Does maths have self-documenting theorems? O.o
Re:BANCStar (2000) by eurasiantiger on Sunday July 18, 2021 @11:51AM (#27873926)
Geometrical proofs could be construed as such, even with some propositional logic given that someone comes up with a solid, universal way of expressing it (cf. The Golden Record)
Re:BANCStar (2000) by code_duck on Sunday July 18, 2021 @09:10AM (#27872630)
I’d probably have a parallel file with comments.