This semester as a part of TAing 167/9 we are making use of Mercurial for SCM. Itay liked Hg so much that he actually started using it for nearly everything on his computer and came up with a good reason for doing this. I am not organized enough to put all of my files into source control (though heavens knows I probably should), but I actually like the idea of using mercurial to keep my two copies of research code synchronized.

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