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Re: Python programming

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Date 2014-02-12 12:26 +1100
Subject Re: Python programming
From Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Message-ID <mailman.6712.1392168385.18130.python-list@python.org> (permalink)

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On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> wrote:
> I did some of my best work before I learned that some of those
>  problems were impossible.

Sounds like something from the invention of Post-It Notes. I can't
find an authoritative source, but it's all over the internet,
attributed to Spencer Silver:

"If I had thought about it, I wouldn't have done the experiment. The
literature was full of examples that said you can't do this."

Programming is often like this. Actually, computing generally. The
literature was full of examples that said that "Alice: Madness
Returns" required Windows 7, a hot video card, and so on. Turns out
that Linux and Wine will do the job quite nicely. Never mind that the
makers are completely uninterested in helping... I just did some
leg-work and got my favourite recent game going under my favourite
operating system :)

ChrisA

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Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 16:21 -0800
  Re: Python programming Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2014-02-12 00:54 +0000
  Re:Python programming Dave Angel <davea@davea.name> - 2014-02-11 20:11 -0500
    Re:Python programming Walter Hurry <walterhurry@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 01:21 +0000
      Re: Python programming Larry Martell <larry.martell@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 20:26 -0500
    Re: Python programming ngangsia akumbo <ngangsia@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 17:29 -0800
  Re: Python programming Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2014-02-12 12:26 +1100
  Re: Python programming Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2014-02-11 22:19 -0500
  Re: Python programming Asdrúbal Iván Suárez <asdrubalivan.listas@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 20:30 -0430
  Re: Python programming Ben Abramowitz <benjaminabramowitz@gmail.com> - 2014-02-11 20:04 -0800

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