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Maybe, but layman programmers also tend to vastly underestimate the work needed to finish projects, because "it's easy, you just need to..."

I would assume the last 10% is going to be just as hard as the first 90%, just like most engineering projects.



Sure, but you probably need less than 100% support to find things very usable for everyday applications. An asymptote isn't so asymptotic if you don't need it to intercept the origin. :)


But when this test suite hits 100%, then comes the optimization work. Just getting it working is still far from getting all the performance out of the hardware.




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