This was how I learned to program, also, on my dad's HP-85. I would animate text on the screen by writing multiple print statements with the correct number of s

This was how I learned to program, also, on my dad's HP-85. I would animate text on the screen by writing multiple print statements with the correct number of spaces. I drew pictures by drawing lines (HP basic has a DRAW command that draw a line between two coordinates) by writing a new DRAW statement for every line. Much later I learned to encode the position information in DATA statements and loop over them. This is an important leap in skill. Maintaining the balance between quick and dirty and maintainable is one skill that separates the great engineers from the good ones.