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gruseom on April 16, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Of parser-fetishists and semi-colons

Bingo. I'm sure the same was true of angels dancing on the head of a pin.

Edit: the point is that sometimes arguments seem stupid because we don't always say (or even know) what we really care about.

arethuza on April 16, 2012 [–]

If there had been software development a thousand years ago we'd be burning people for using (or not using) tabs/semicolons/emacs etc.

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