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Pastebins are a simple tool for sharing code snippets for public viewing. They've existed seemingly forever and are incredibly popular in IRC (you do still use IRC, right?) where they're used to paste larger amounts of code for discussion, analysis, and debugging. In return for your text, you're given a nicely formatted syntax highlighted page whose URL you can paste into the channel. Typical examples include pastebin.com, pastie.org, and nopaste.info.
Last week, Git repository hosting service GitHub demonstrated a new twist on the boring but useful pastebin concept with their latest offering, Gist. The novell thing about Gist is that any code that is pasted by a user into the service ends up becoming its own Git repository...
July 27, 2008
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