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Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2012 09:05:50 -0700
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Jean-Michel Pichavant wrote:
> Why would you want to hire someone that knows something pointless as the 
> version where feature X has been introduced ?

As an example from today, if someone claimed to have 5+ years of Python 
experience, but didn't know that 'with' was standard in 2.6 (or at least 
the end of the 2.x cycle) I would be suspicious that they actually had 
the experience they claimed.

~Ethan~