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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.