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>>janvdb+(OP)
> [...] but it seems that many people still get most excited about the six months of work he put into rewriting cat [...]

Is it me or does 6 months seem like an awfully long time for re-writing such a small and simple program?

>>koyote+ve
I would guess that it wasn’t his sole project for those 6 months, but rather something he kept incrementally improving until there was nothing left to improve.