Easter may be humanity's chronologically earliest coding horror
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For example, documentation seemingly goes to inordinate lengths to conceal the fact that this lunar calendar ignores leap days
Much is made of the lunar calendar's fine attempt to approximate 365.2425-day Gregorian years. It doesn't do this! It uses 365-day years
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Just subtracting all the leap days out of the Gregorian calendar makes converting to the lunar calendar unimaginably simpler
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Then there are epacts. Epacts require big, horrible, impermanent tables both to compute and to interpret. They are also absolutely unneeded
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