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On Wed, 3 Dec 2014 10:16:18 -0800 (PST), sohcahtoa82@gmail.com declaimed
the following:


>
>I'm surprised other people haven't picked up on how obvious of a troll this "Skybuck Flying" guy is.  He claims 20 years programming experience, then uses an absurd amount of globals, many of which are related, without using a data structure of some kind.
>
	My initial impression is of 20 years of Kemeny&Kurtz BASIC... Of the
70s... with everything global.

	 But even I, in high school, would have made most of those "globals" a
set of arrays (especially given the 2-character variable names allowed) and
used documentation (comments) to supply the information on what index value
represented what attribute...

dim sh(20)
rem ship attributes as
rem	(1) distribute shield power
rem	(2) target weapons subsystems

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