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From: Jim Janney <jjanney@shell.xmission.com>
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Subject: Re: ctrl-c ctril-v
Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 11:29:26 -0700
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Roedy Green <see_website@mindprod.com.invalid> writes:

> On Thu, 24 Jan 2013 18:16:42 -0700, Jim Janney
> <jjanney@shell.xmission.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>> Programmers should not copy/paste on a regular
>>basis.
>
> You mean should not clone code, right?   Lots of copy paste is
> rearranging, refactoring, building tables from external sources etc.

That is indeed the very thing that I mean, yes :-)  Although for most
refactoring I find Eclipse's builtin tools superior to doing it
manually.

-- 
Jim Janney