Category Archives: long

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Vim and Breakindent

Posted on Monday 31 January 2011 by J. D. Bartlett

My contention: Programmers should never have to insert line breaks into long lines of code. Why: The position of line breaks in long lines of code does not contain any semantic information.  Where coding standards limit line length, it is … Continue reading →

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Mercurial Woes

Posted on Monday 17 May 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction I mentioned previously that the Trosnoth programmers have been looking at migrating from subversion to mercurial for source control. I took it upon myself to convert the subversion history to mercurial history as seamlessly as possible. Here I document … Continue reading →

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Pyj: Experimenting with Code Design

Posted on Monday 3 May 2010 by J. D. Bartlett

Introduction A few weeks ago I proposed a new concept for not-quite-OO programming. Recently I’ve been working on turning this into a reality. I haven’t written a new programming language. Rather, I’ve extended Python using import hooks. I’ve called this … Continue reading →

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