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Wow, he's still got it. I read the whole thing, without realizing it was Guido Rossum, thinking "hey, that's a really good point". Then got to the end and realized it was the inventor of the Python language. So, I wasn't impressed as I was reading it because of who it was, I was impressed because he was making a really good point.

Obviously, the fact that he made my favorite programming language was no fluke.

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I had exactly the same experience and I was prepared to criticize because I normally think talk of operators in programming languages tends to add little but confusion and is mostly supported by programmers eager to do clever (i.e. incomprehensible) things.

Ramblings through technology, politics, culture and philosophy by the creator of the Python programming language.

This was literally the first thing I read when I hit the link. Don't mean to sound rude but how did you miss that ? Does it render differently on web? I saw this on the mobile version of the site on my Android.

For me that was covered up by some popover I didn't read. Besides the tagline of a blog is the sort of thing I for one gloss over. I've had decades of training how to skip straight to the content.

That's what I thought, usually even I am trained to skip those few lines under titles (like opinion articles have a blurb about the author )

Yeah, that's me exactly.

I don't know why, but I did the same thing. I read the post content first, then after finished I went backup and saw the blog title and subtitle.

Or I could say my brain was only conscious to reading the blog title and subtitle afterwards.

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