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qwertyuiop924 on Nov 20, 2016 | parent | context | favorite | on: Learn X in Y minutes

Ah, the classic assumption problem perhaps best demonstrated by lua:

"I wrote an hour's worth of code, and then I realized this language is 1-indexed when none of it worked!"

thomasmarcelis on Nov 20, 2016 [–]

I somewhat like learning languages this way, I rarely forget my own mistakes I have to fix.

closed on Nov 21, 2016 | [–]

I think I like learning this way, but then I remember the time I learned the hard way that Matlab hates when scripts begin with a number, and I question my life choices.

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