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by: DFS - Wed, 24 Apr 2024 13:09 UTC

On 4/24/2024 3:49 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
> On Tue, 23 Apr 2024 16:13:34 -0400, DFS wrote:
>
>> On 3/21/2024 2:19 AM, Lawrence D'Oliveiro wrote:
>>
>>> I’m fond of writing things like
>>>
>>> /*
>>> A very simple HTML/XML entity-escape function--why isn’t this part
>>> of the standard Java API?
>>> */
>>>
>>> which involve less typing than
>>>
>>> //
>>> // A very simple HTML/XML entity-escape function--why isn’t this
>>> // part of the standard Java API?
>>> //
>>
>> Get yourself some Notepad++.
>>
>> Highlight a block of comments and hit Ctrl + Q.
>
> Get an inferior piece of software, available only on an inferior platform,
> just to turn a comment style that I like into one I don’t like?
>
> What next: you want me to give up my car for a rickshaw, and move to a
> village on top of a cliff?

moved to cola from clc

You didn't know you could use the silly FOSS clone Notepadqq on the
silly FOSS clone Linux?

If it's worth hacking on well, it's worth hacking on for money.

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