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[โ€“] xigoi@lemmy.sdf.org 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I never understood how concatenative programmers can hold the current state of the stack in their head and never get confused about what is where, especially when changing complex code.

[โ€“] Andy@programming.dev 1 points 1 year ago

Haha I'm still working that out for sure. I guess a combination of comments, a good debugger, practice, patterns such as making many very small well defined functions, and frankly a bunch of the people being geniuses (myself certainly excluded).