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From: Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid>
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Subject: Re: Python (was Re: I did not inhale)
Date: Wed, 21 Aug 2024 01:05:17 -0000 (UTC)
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On Tue, 20 Aug 2024 14:21:38 -0000 (UTC), Kalevi Kolttonen wrote:

> Even though his PhD thesis was
> something like 100-150 pages of strange-looking formulas, he said he had
> problems with C on the Amiga. For some reason, he was unable to remember
> what functions where provided as standard libraries, so he always ended
> up writing his own functions instead of using libraries.

Was he not able to keep some reference docs handy? For example, I rarely 
get very far in working on Python code without having this page
<https://docs.python.org/3/library/> open in a browser.