Re: [Rails-devel] 18GA

[Justin R. <jus...@gm...>]

Bah. If you're going over 80 characters, you're doing it wrong!

I code in 80-character vim windows to force myself to keep from
nesting too deeply. Yes, it's sometimes impractically difficult to
adhere to this but in general I find it nice to try and stick with it.

On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...> wrote:
> It used to be that 80 columns was enough.  Now these young whippersnappers
> want 140 characters.
>
> --
> Chris
>
> Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
>
>
> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:25 PM, Justin Rebelo <jus...@gm...>
> wrote:
>>
>> I've heard of this Fortran before...is that the language written on
>> the walls of Egyptian tombs?
>>
>> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 2:08 PM, Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>> > Note that I think (for now) my role will be editing/updating/checking
>> > XML
>> > files.  My real programming skills stopped updating back in BASIC and
>> > FORTRAN days...
>> > I'll be happy to check the 18GA XML files that Adam sent.  In my files,
>> > I
>> > had left comments like "need to implement free T2 train."
>> > --
>> > Chris
>> >
>> > Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 6:08 AM, Scott Petersen <sc...@re...>
>> > wrote:
>> >>
>> >> On Mon, Mar 7, 2011 at 3:16 AM, Chris Shaffer <chr...@gm...>
>> >> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >>> Well, that's funny.  I had a few minutes last week and decided to try
>> >>> figuring out the xml files by doing 18GA.  I guess the work is wasted,
>> >>> though the learning process was fruitful.
>> >>
>> >> Chris, it looks like Adam got a little farther than I he led on with
>> >> the
>> >> 18GA files.  I see that he changed the map, public and private
>> >> companies,
>> >> trains, the tile list and the stock market.  Do you want to take the
>> >> next
>> >> step to check the work he has done?  A further step is to figure out
>> >> how to
>> >> address special rules.  I was planning to do some work on 18GA, but I
>> >> have
>> >> other items to work on so I don't mind letting you take it on.
>> >>
>> >>>
>> >>> Is there any way we can mark games people are working on, so there
>> >>> isn't
>> >>> duplication of effort?
>> >>
>> >> I think we should keep it simple and be overly communicative on this
>> >> listserv rather than creating another process.  Presumably, once a game
>> >> has
>> >> the basic XML files so that it can be played by 1830 rules, it can be
>> >> added
>> >> into Rails.
>> >
>> >
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