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Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language (tabloid.vercel.app)
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[–] el_abuelo@programming.dev 2 points 6 hours ago

My first foray into doing anything remotely close to programming was substituting things in other people's TCL scripts. I had no idea what I was doing...but i was somehow getting results.

I curently have no idea how this person did this, and so as a bare minimum id have to learn that in order to know where to start replacing keywords. Maybe it's completely trivial, but the fact remains I do not know and so I would have to learn something.

So yes, even if they're "just replacing keywords" they're still learning something. Even if you consider it trivial or mundane.