... the bloody obvious ...

At certain seasons and in certain weathers, the throbbing of the pieces of shrapnel still lodged in my feet from the unspoken assumptions, corner cases and such like of projects past leads me obsessively to ponder the bloody obvious.

Whatever did I do to rattle your cage recently?

What you did was to post an interesting ++reply to an engaging question. I did not mean to offer offense; I apologize if I did so.

Give a man a fish:  <%-{-{-{-<

In reply to Re^4: An efficient way to gather a common portion of several strings' beginnings by AnomalousMonk
in thread An efficient way to gather a common portion of several strings' beginnings by igoryonya

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