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What Drove You to Madness? (lemmy.world)
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[–] cmhe@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I know this post is more about the committing on LLM "fixes", but find the other reasons more interesting.

Similar to the date & time library there are a couple of other things that look easy at a first glance, but get complicated very quickly, because it has so many special cases:

  • lexicographic sorting (different languages sort things differently)
  • Postal address formatting (different standards in different countries, with many different context sensitive rules)
  • string handling
  • ...