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		piranha 21 days ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Rob Pike’s Rules of Programming (1989) > Rule 5 is often shortened to "write stupid code that uses smart objects". This is probably the worst use of the word "shortened" ever, and it should be more like "mutilated"?

andsoitis 21 days ago [–]

Syntactic sugar is cancer of the semicolon.

franktankbank 21 days ago | [–]

Tide goes in tide goes out, can't explain that.

paradox460 21 days ago | | [–]

Tide goes in, clean laundry comes out

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