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by pjscott 3573 days ago
The best jokes in software usually have running code. The best of the best are practical.
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DonHopkins 3573 days ago
Like X-Windows: The world's first fully modular software disaster. [1]

[1] http://www.art.net/~hopkins/Don/unix-haters/x-windows/danger...

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StavrosK 3572 days ago
Like Flask.
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Cyph0n 3572 days ago
It was a joke aimed at Bottle, right? And now it's probably the second most popular Python web framework. Armin knows his shit.
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StavrosK 3571 days ago
Yeah, it was an April fool's joke satirizing web microframeworks. He does, but I don't know if that was more because Flask is a better framework or because of better marketing. I don't think Bottle is really any worse than Flask.
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