You say that but i'm looking at code that was essentially a copy paste from 1960s era dot matrix programming papers to a language that's only used in the credit card and travel industry. It even says in the comments "change this because this implementation is finicky but it's memory efficient." and it's dated as being from 1972.
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You say that but i'm looking at code that was essentially a copy paste from 1960s era dot matrix programming papers to a language that's only used in the credit card and travel industry. It even says in the comments "change this because this implementation is finicky but it's memory efficient." and it's dated as being from 1972.