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Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2012 16:02:06 -0400
Subject: Re: A desperate lunge for on-topic-ness
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On Sat, Oct 20, 2012 at 3:10 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber
<wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 20 Oct 2012 14:18:47 +0000 (UTC), Grant Edwards
> <invalid@invalid.invalid> declaimed the following in
> gmane.comp.python.general:
>
>>
>> True, but nobody prints source code out on paper do they?
>>
>> Seriously -- I can't remember the last time I printed souce code...
>
>         Well, having been unemployed for a year, I can't speak much of
> recent practice...
>
>         But I did tend to run up listings when I had to take over
> maintenance of some programs and needed to become familiar with the
> overall code base...
Same here. I've been unemployed (retired!) 6 years, but I'd
occasionally print code written by someone else, never anything of my
own.