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On 25/08/2014 17:29, Ned Batchelder wrote:
> 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? :)
>

It's a typo, it should have been 1944 :)

-- 
My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask
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Mark Lawrence