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From: Hans Georg Schaathun <hg@schaathun.net>
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Subject: Re: checking if a list is empty
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On Thu, 12 May 2011 22:16:10 +1000, Chris Angelico
  <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
:  Anyone can join. Not everyone wants to join. Me, I'm happy here as a
:  priest of the software industry, and I have no desire to become a
:  priest of, say, automotive engineering or concrete pouring. Would an
:  expert concreter be expected to explain to me exactly how to make
:  different sorts of concrete, or would he be expected simply to fulfill
:  his contract and provide me with my structure?

Of course he would.  When a piece of software to calculate the
properties or recipes for different kinds of concrete is needed.

-- 
:-- Hans Georg