Tanquist · @tanquist
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@anatudor
This reminds me of the first I wrote on my 400 (and stored on an audio cassette). I discovered that if I want to plot a circle with evenly spaced points, I have to define them in polar coordinates and then transform them into Cartesian before plotting.

#computerprogram #atari

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Peter Wood · @pete
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@soxfaninsd

Funnily enough, I have a vivid memory of one of my teachers, Mrs Skelton, a bully, taking the school assembly, and, reading from a copy of , telling us about a mission where a had a single hyphen in the wrong place and caused a rocket to rapidly disassemble.

This story filled my 9 year old mind with , , and . I'm not sure what the moral of the story was, but I am now a programmer, who has worked on .

#safetycriticalsystems #terror #wonder #awe #computerprogram #space #readersdigest

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