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Kyle Rose <krose@krose.org> writes:
> I think the exception handling, garbage collection, and implicit
> object destruction provided by those languages (and by C++, as
> overwrought as it is) makes any codebase easier to understand and
> maintain.

Of course, some of the most horrid unreadable source code I've ever seen
is in one of git's competitors -- written in python....

-Miles
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