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“I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.” quote by Kent Beck — Download Open image

“I've known people who have not mastered their tools who are good programmers, but not a tool master who remained a mediocre programmer.”

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