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From:
Stephen Turner
Date:
July 8, 2002 09:45
Subject:
Re: My solution annotated
Message ID:
Pine.LNX.3.96.1020708174310.4863B-100000@gentoo
On Mon, 8 Jul 2002, Eugene van der Pijll wrote:
> 
> The competent programmer [...]
> avoids clever tricks like the
> plague. -- (-dsger |)ijkstra
> 

The line break here made me read this as "avoids clever tricks, for example
the plague" on first parsing, and I was wondering how I could have used the
plague in this month's problem.

-- 
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
"This is Henman's 8th Wimbledon, and he's only lost 7 matches." BBC, 2/Jul/01
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