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Date: Tue, 17 May 2011 09:36:23 -0400
From: "D'Arcy J.M. Cain" <darcy@druid.net>
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On Tue, 17 May 2011 16:39:48 +1000
Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> wrote:
> You have a point there. Although I can't guarantee that all my code is
> particularly *good*, certainly not what I'd want to hold up for a
> novice to learn from - partly because it dates back anywhere up to two
> decades, and partly because quite a few of the things I was working
> with are completely undocumented!

Sounds like a perfect reason to open source it.  If what you say is
true it could benefit you more than others, at least at the beginning.
Remember, open source is a two way street.

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