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		enneff on Oct 5, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: A Tour of Go Package fmt is used all the time. It makes sense that it should have a short name.

wnight on Oct 6, 2011 [–]

That was a pretty lame justification in the 1960s. And now we've got macroing text editors and general purpose compression that can recover the space.

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