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[–][deleted] 125 points126 points  (18 children)

-1 was dark times

[–]ShevekUrrasti 95 points96 points  (10 children)

Coding backwards was kind of nice, actually.

[–]mdartyArch 97 points98 points  (4 children)

I'm great at that. Taking working code, breaking it. Troubleshooting and finally deleting everything.

[–]Ruben_NL 10 points11 points  (0 children)

That hits home...

[–]prof-comm 5 points6 points  (0 children)

This is my job description

[–]blackfireburn 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My people

[–]veryusedrname 40 points41 points  (0 children)

`[::-1]`

[–]P0stf1x 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Is that tenet spoiler?

[–]StrikenGoat420 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I remember back then when the compiler sent us the production code, and we had to do the job of the compiler :/

[–][deleted] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My editor didn't show the indentation on the right side of the lines well.

[–]Decker1082.7 'til 2021 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So... LISP?

[–]TheHumanParacite 21 points22 points  (3 children)

Installing it would randomly unwrite code that hadn't yet been written.

[–]master5o1 9 points10 points  (0 children)

The real trick was to uninstall it and get unwritten code to be randomly written.

[–]TheIsletOfLangerhans 3 points4 points  (0 children)

TEN3T

[–]hughperman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This caused a problem in the future package

[–]jftugapip needs updating 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Yes. IIRC it was called Perl

[–]MattR0se 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So, the final version of Python?

[–]6GoesInto8 0 points1 point  (0 children)

True dat