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On 13/05/2014 12:21, Chris Angelico wrote:
> On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 9:16 PM, Roy Smith <roy@panix.com> wrote:
>> Sometimes code is still running for 15 years because it's so wonderful
>> nobody has been able to come up with anything better.  Sometimes it's
>> because nobody knows how it works anymore and everybody is afraid to
>> touch it :-)
>
> And sometimes, both...
>

Or neither as you don't have the source :)

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

Mark Lawrence

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