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From: Michael S <already5chosen@yahoo.com>
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Subject: Re: Python recompile
Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2025 16:15:51 +0200
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On Tue, 18 Mar 2025 11:48:41 +0000
Richard Harnden <richard.nospam@gmail.invalid> wrote:

> On 18/03/2025 10:59, bart wrote:
> > for a test file of nearly 1M lines.  
> 
> Any sane shop would reject a source file that long.
> It's unmaintainable.
> 

First, you response has very little to do with arguments that are going
on.
Second, huge "source" files tend to be computer-generated. So they are
only source from POV of back-end compiler. From the POV of humans they
are intermediate products. So, there are no concerns of maintainability.