• feoh@lemmy.sdf.org
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    1 year ago

    Also, how would that ‘weirdness’ impact using the device in a teaching context?

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      1 year ago

      People would learn bad habits.

      For example, due to parameter passing often being done via the zero page, recursion is unnecessarily hard on the 6502, whereas one could argue that recursion is one of the major skills to master for any programmer.

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        1 year ago

        @irdc @feoh All programmers need to learn recursion and fully understand it so when they encounter it in the wild they can properly analyze what it is doing and replace it with non-recursive code.