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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by bonoboTP on Friday August 23, 2024 @07:25AM (#41328020)
How is it remarkable? Random people didn't get to add stuff to Python in 2001. It was a niche thing and someone who was contributing to it was likely to be a smart and dedicated person who would naturally have an impactful career ahead of them.

It's a misconception that the informal playful hobby hacking things are their separate world from real professional development.

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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by dylanfw on Friday August 23, 2024 @02:02PM (#41331391)
I think OP is commenting more so on the reversal of the developer’s relationship with rules of syntax than their personal capabilities.
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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by bonoboTP on Friday August 23, 2024 @04:31PM (#41332830)
Totally right, my mistake. I guess the order of information as presented in that comment misled me.
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Re:Python's Preprocessor – Pydong by jhylton on Friday August 23, 2024 @05:09PM (#41333123)
No worries. I was working at PythonLabs at the time, so I guess you could say that adding Easter eggs to Python was part of my day job.
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