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In my twenty years, I've rerolled famous algorithms "every now and then".

Its almost wild to me that you never have.

Sometimes you need a better sort for just one task. Sometimes you need a parser because the data was never 100% standards compliant. Sometimes you need to reread Knuth for his line-breaking algorithm.



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