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• Real Programs don't use shared text. Otherwise, how can they use functions for scratch space after they are finished calling them?
• Use library functions.
• hidden flag n. [scientific computation] An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• hidden flag: [scientific computation] n. An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence.
  For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass....
• Look out how you use proud words. When you let proud words go, it is not easy to call them back.
  They wear long boots, hard boots; they walk off proud...
• ude [WPI] adj. 1. (of a program) Badly written.
  2. Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?...
• ude: [WPI] adj. 1. (of a program) Badly written. 2.
  Functionally poor, e.g., a program that is very difficult to use because of gratuitously poor (random?...