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#126 – James Gosling: Java, JVM, Emacs, and the Early Days of Computing

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I'm at odds with many of the people around me over issues about like how you lay out a piece of software. And I tend to go for a style that's very dense. Minimize the white space. Right. So I like to be able to see a whole function and to understand what it does, rather than have to go scroll scroll scroll and remember. Yeah. It did stick pretty clearly for me because one of the things that I care about is being able to sort of look at a piece of code and, and be able to prove to myself that it works.

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