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God I wish there was an easier way to do this (programming.dev)

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[-] NostraDavid@programming.dev 1 points 11 months ago

You joke, but I've seen a programming language that didn't have a loop, and if you copied a line of text and pasted it in a text editor, JSON would come out...

The editor could barely handle 400+ lines because it probably converted the text to JSON, added a letter and converted it back to JSON... Per inserted symbol...

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