Collective memory (was: Good code patterns in Python)

[Piet van Oostrum]

>>>>> Max M <maxm at mxm.dk> (MM) wrote:

MM> Peter Hansen wrote:
>> Actually, the moral is "use a revision control system".  Anyone not doing
>> so should not be programming professionally.(*)

>> *) I speak as someone who programmed professionally without using a good
>> revision control system, for a while, and made some serious mistakes
>> as a result.  Backups are *not* sufficient, but merely a slight step
>> up from doing nothing at all.


MM> Arh ... that will never happen to me ... If you start using CVS systems,
MM> whats next? Anti Virus software? Raid systems? backups? It will never end.
MM> It's all just expenses.

In fact the problem starts with using a computer. Just write (or type with
an oldfashioned typewriter) your Python programs on a sheet of paper. Then
the indentation will be unambiguous :=)
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