On 03/05/2011 02:47 PM, Invisible wrote:


> cheap. But I've become utterly addicted to it.
>
> So what is it? Well, basically it's a computer game about computer
> programming. That's essentially what it comes down to.

It's a game where you program robots to construct chemical molecules. 
That's basically it.

On the other hand, if you did this with any half-decent programming 
language, it would be really easy. (That's kind of the purpose of a 
*good* programming language - to make stuff easy.) So, suffice it to 
say, you have to write these programs using a crappy language, and some 
of the puzzles require utterly violating any semblance of modularity, 
maintainability, or reliability. I almost wonder if being an expert 
programmer is actually a *disadvantage*. ;-)

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