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Fabian Giesen
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Okay twice in two days I have now encountered someone floating the idea of writing a computer program with pen and paper as patently absurd and...

I spent a lot of time in my life doing just that. I _still_ write code in longhand on paper when I'm trying to think through algorithms.
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Fabian Giesen · 3w
Obviously, you do you, but this was a habit I got into because for most of my childhood I either got limited computer time (before I had my own in my room) or would sometimes spend weeks without access to _any_ computing device, for example when we went somewhere for vacation. (I didn't have a lapto...