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Conditional logic is the decision-making backbone of programming, from C++ and Bash scripts to Excel formulas. Whether you’re ...

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Dungeons, Dragons and Dice—a script that lets you roll those 3d6 and 2d20 that a surprising number of games require. In my last article, I talked about a really simple shell script for a game called ...