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Needed 1+1, built a functional programming language

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amelius · 1790771859 · focus · HN ↗
Isn't this what every first grade CS student goes through?
1. dhosek · 1790772312 · focus · HN ↗
  One of the few homework assignments I took in the line cs class I took was to write a calculator program that could store data in variables a–z. I wrote a simple algebraic solver instead with arbitrary length variable names.
  1. dhosek · 1790781873 · focus · HN ↗
    * …I did in the lone CS class…

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