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From: Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject: Re: Confessions of a terrible programmer
Date: Fri, 06 Sep 2013 14:52:28 -0400
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On 9/6/2013 12:56 PM, Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> Not specifically about Python, but still relevant:

to what?

> http://blog.kickin-the-darkness.com/2007/09/confessions-of-terrible-programmer.html

I think link posts should have at least a sentence summarizing the 
content of the linked page so I would have some idea of whether it is 
worth me clicking it.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy