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Program Repair Shop

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Programmers Write Too Much Code

        sub copy_observers {
          my ($from, $to) = @_;
          $to->add_observer($from->get_observers);
        }

• This reminds me of when I first tried to drive a nail

• I pounded and pounded and eventually the nail was in

• One day, I saw a professional carpenter do it

• WHAM! WHAM! Done.

• This was a big revelation for me

• "Oh, that's what it's supposed to look like!"

• Beginning writers have this same problem

• They use twenty words where five will do

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