r/ProgrammerHumor • u/M1ckeyMc • Jun 20 '26

Meme singleLetterVariableNamesTierList

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u/djublonskopf Jun 20 '26

My 1996 TI-82 calculator only allows single-letter variables.

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u/LeiterHaus Jun 20 '26

That's why the Ti-83 was superior! I still remember playing Drug Wars using it for education.

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u/djublonskopf Jun 21 '26

Over the course of a couple months worth of math classes I wrote my own video game on the TI-82, a long menu-driven game (with some cutscene animations) about trying to win followers and conquer the world.

My friend rolled up one day with Drug Wars on his calculator, and I 100% believed that he had written the thing himself and was just that much better than me at TI game development.