When Your Calculator Has An Identity Crisis

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When Your Calculator Has An Identity Crisis

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The calculator that prints "Hello World" instead of 35 is the perfect representation of a developer's first project. Sure, it doesn't actually calculate anything, but who cares about functionality when you've successfully made your code say something? The transition from "I'm going to build a calculator" to "Look, it prints text!" is basically the developer equivalent of planning to clean your entire house but settling for organizing one drawer and calling it a productive day. At least it doesn't throw an exception, which is already better than 90% of first projects.

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