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Would You Consider Code Golf
To Be A Kind Of Prayer?
As In, You Make A Convoluted,
Intricate, Beautiful, And Useless
Artifact. As In, You'Re Using Your
Skills To Ask For Something,
...I'D Ask For A Handful Of Bugs?
Code Has Bugs, Lots Of It.