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On 12/27/05, Christian Tismer <tismer at stackless.com> wrote:

> And we are of course implementing algorithms with a twisted goal-set
> in mind: How to express this the shortest way, not elegantly,
> just how to shave off one or even two bytes, re-iterating the
> possible algorithms again and again, just to find a version that is
> lexically shorter? To what a silly, autistic crowd of insane people
> do I belong? But it caught me, again!


I personally think that it's a good practice. The experiences gathered
might be useful in other applications in the future. That's where the
excitement of learning new things is about.

 Actually, I don't see so much applications
> for the given problem,


Something like this:

http://j.domaindlx.com/elements28/wxpython/LEDCtrl.html

convinced me that there are application of this problem.
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