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On 17/06/2015 23:09, Laura Creighton wrote:
>
> ps -- Marko, we have ample evidence that you are an extremely clever
> person.  But the purpose of TTD is not to make clever code, but
> wise code.  TTD in the hands of a fool will never produce that.
> But how else do you have to check that your design, while clever
> isn't _too damn clever_?  Aren't you plagued with that problem?  I am
> and TDD is the best thing I ever learned to keep that tendancy I have
> to write too clever code in check.
>

Strange, I see no such evidence, just a person who lives firmly in cloud 
cuckoo land.

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

Mark Lawrence