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by dandellion 4693 days ago
Hell, sometimes they use a dictionary when they should be using a list. Almost everything can be used wrongly by a begginer, which doesn't mean it shouldn't be there.

I think having a basic stats module always handy would be very convenient.

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> I think having a basic stats module always handy would be very convenient.

I absolutely agree. My only point was that these tools are sometimes misapplied, not at all to argue that they shouldn't be readily available. They should be.

While you are correct, it sounds like his point was that even to someone moderately skilled it is easy to make a mistake that makes your work __completely__ invalid, rather than merely inefficient or too-complicated.