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On 8/25/14 11:02 AM, Benjamin Siegmund wrote:
> Dear Python Developers,
> since 1974 researchers and software developers try to ease software
> debugging.

I'm really curious: where did the date 1974 come from?  What happened 
then? Hadn't people already been trying to ease software debugging for 
at least 20 years prior to that? :)

-- 
Ned Batchelder, http://nedbatchelder.com