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From: Erik Naggum <clerik@naggum.no>
Subject: Re: Make it right, then make it fast
Date: 1997/10/21
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* Donald Fisk
| "1.12.5 Cleverness
| 
| Avoid it. <snip>
| 
|   To paraphrase Samuel Johnson, we advise you to look over your
| code very carefully, and whenever you find a part that you think
| is particularly fine, strike it out."

hm.  how does this relate to the genesis of idiomatic forms of expression?

#\Erik
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