[Tutor] Through a glass, darkly: the datetime module

Prasad, Ramit ramit.prasad at jpmorgan.com
Mon Oct 8 18:05:42 CEST 2012


Steven D'Aprano wrote:
> It is a little-known fact that Unix sys admins, and C programmers, can
> only type a fixed number of keys before their brains explode. Sad but
> true. Since nobody knows how many keys that will be, but only that it is
> fixed at birth, they have a horror of typing four characters when two
> would do. Hence the standard Unix directories /usr and /mnt instead of
> /user and /mount, and the Unix commands:

Odd then that they eschew the usage of the mouse, a device which would 
prolong their lives.

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