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7th August 2009 - Link Blog

Richard Jones: Something I'm working on... Python’s with statement appears to provide just enough syntactic sugar to create some really interesting DSL-style APIs—here’s a very promising example for laying out GUI applications.

Posted 7th August 2009 at 3:47 pm

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