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Comment by mfer

5 years ago

It's the oldest known land animal in modern times.

For example, a tortoise could have lived a couple thousand years ago and lived a couple hundred years. The people of that time may have known about it over the generations. Yet, we today have no record.

"ever" is said a lot but it's hard to substantiate.

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moron4hire  5 years ago

"That we know of" is implicit.

  • TremendousJudge  5 years ago

    explicit is better than implicit

    • moron4hire  5 years ago

      Jesus Christ, this Hyper Text Markup Language page served via the Hyper Text Transfer Protocol over a Transmission Control Protocol connection can be so tiring sometimes.

    • toss1  5 years ago

      Of course you want to explicitly initialize all your variables and specify contexts in a programming language.

      In a natural language, implicit and contextual cues are often more important (and can be lost in low bandwidth communication media like this).

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    • kazinator  5 years ago

      Smartly implemented, documented implicit with test cases and air-tight semantics beats irksomely verbose and repetitive explicit.

      Moving a return value into the EAX register yourself is more explicit; I don't see a lot of Python code doing that sort of thing.