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Old 10-03-2013, 06:00 AM   #131
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Originally Posted by kovidgoyal View Post
Just a counterpoint, calibre is about 90% python, has half a million lines of code and ~100 code contributors, and is extremely well maintained, stable and evolves faster than the vast majority of software in the world.

http://www.ohloh.net/p/calibre
Oh, it is that many lines of code. I really like Python but it seems to me that you have to be a better programmer and more disciplined to write really good and maintainable code in Python. Or maybe I have not just found the right tools. I am still missing "use strict" from Perl.
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