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I agree, saying "Wow, this is a viable and useful language" because you can do something in just a few highly unreadable lines seems... like a pretty odd judgment.

It'd be a bit like saying that C is a great language because someone wrote a raytracer that fits on a business card[0] using it.

[0] http://fabiensanglard.net/rayTracing_back_of_business_card/



This code is fairly readable. It takes one or two shortcuts, but it's much closer to real code than to golf.


its called "Abstraction"




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