Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files

From	Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au>
Subject	Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files
Date	2014-09-20 16:29 +1000
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Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> writes:

> I heard one [programmer] mention that even though he sees the words
> are misspelled, he deliberately doesn't bother fixing them because its
> not important. I guess he just liked the look of his text having
> highlighted words scattered throughout the editor.

If it's who I'm thinking of (or, heck, any one of a hundred similar
cow-orkers), the text editor would not show English spelling errors
since they're not interested in the English text in their program code
:-)

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Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-19 23:59 +1000
  Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-09-20 02:22 +1000
    Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-09-20 03:07 +1000
    Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Cameron Simpson <cs@zip.com.au> - 2014-09-20 10:30 +1000
    Re: program to generate data helpful in finding duplicate large files Ben Finney <ben+python@benfinney.id.au> - 2014-09-20 16:29 +1000

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