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Before you start trying to draw conclusions about the general state of development, consider that Mr. Jeffries...

"Some further very simple tweak, which I no longer remember, and the test ran … and did nothing. That’s not too surprising, I guess, because there’s no

    if __name__ == '__main__':
"which, I believe, means that no one calls the testrunner.

"You’re supposed to know that!"

...is also the fellow who had some trouble with Sudoku[1].

I say this not as an attack on Mr. Jeffries, but as a way of pointing out that shaving yaks is easier if you know to start with shears and not a hatchet.

[1] http://ronjeffries.com/xprog/articles/oksudoku/



If I read that right... that Sudoku sllver only got as far as becoming a Sudoku board API, aka a object wrapping an array?

And the article spends more bytes talking about whether some code is YAGNI, than the amount of bytes in the code itself?


As far as I know, yes, that's where he gave up.




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