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Show me someone who doesn't have code smelly habits and I'll show you a book author or a pedantic blogger -- not a production coder.

Amen Borther "forgive me father I used 5 GOTOs last week"

He uses Java, there's only so much stink you can remove from Java code, mostly you just push it around and try to make it as small as possible. Java is still a decent production language for some tasks, but its lack of some basic features and syntactic niceties means you have to hold your nose while coding most of the time.

Is Notch's coding habits supposed to be common knowledge? Got any links?

http://www.twitch.tv/notch/b/302823358

This is the start of the 48 hour video showing him building a 2d game for the lundum dare compo.

Can you provide any examples? Was it the tools he was using, notes he was making, or diagrams he was drawing? I haven't seen him program, so I'm curious as to what makes him so much more productive.