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Manos Pitsidianakis

4 months ago

Manos Pitsidianakis
4 months ago

Reading a 1584 treatise on the horrors of #Python monkey patching and duck typing.

> [...], the pestilent practices of Pythonists, [...]

Title page of 1584 book titled "The Discovery of Witchcraft" authored by a Reginald Scot. It lists the topics of the book.

Overall, this book is an attack on superstition, charlatans pretending to practice magic as well as the Christian religious practice of accusing people of witchcraft -people who are frequently poor and/or mentally ill- as a political weapon.

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