Last words of a ??? programmer

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Published on 2009-01-22T15:01:53Z Indexed on 2010/03/13 2:07 UTC
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What will the last words of some kind of programmer be?

Like: LW of a Perl programmer:

I don't have to write documentation. The source is formatted so well, I can read it anytime later...

or

Im just going to write a regular expression to find this, then I'm done...

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