Mel’s Hack – The Missing Bits
by cassiepaper on Hacker News.
New article on Mel’s Loop project – an analysis of Mel Kaye’s hack for his blackjack game for the RPC-4000 computer. “This approach to coding is far from extinct. One often finds it in software teams, among some highly regarded – though less valued – members. If you’ve spent several years in the industry or in Computer Science academia, you surely know this subspecies: the developer that replaces a straightforward loop with a series of auto-resolving promises, capped by a cryptic reducer, then revels in their teammates’ bewilderment at the sight of the new code. Hardly the personality that you’d select for a coding legend.”
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