jrife@fthood (09/13/85)
...Back into the heat of the battle... Ok, so are we *all* willing to admit that the only acceptable way to format a program is the way in K&R? *And* the way in all the proprietary source I've ever seen. Can you say "The phone company even has a monopoly on source code format?" I knew you could. :-) No, we're not going to say that K&R are gods, just lesser dieties. And, although that book packs more information on the C language into 128 pages than most books three times its size, nothing is perfect. I stand by my formatting style as readable, clear, and easy for a newcomer to understand. (As for my *programming* style, well, silly is a good word) -- ********************************* * * * Jeff Rife * * ihnp4!uiucuxc!fthood!jrife * * * * "Gene Simmons never had a * * personal computer when * * he was a kid." * * --Berke Breathed * * * *********************************
tp@ndm20 (09/18/85)
Of course if you have an indent program that produces output that is
acceptable to you, it really doesn't matter how people write their
code, does it?
Terry Poot
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ARPA: ndm20!tp%smu@csnet-relay.ARPAlwall@sdcrdcf.UUCP (Larry Wall) (10/05/85)
In article <3400009@ndm20> tp@ndm20 (Terry Poot) writes: > >Of course if you have an indent program that produces output that is >acceptable to you, it really doesn't matter how people write their >code, does it? Only if it's unsupported code. If you are going to run rn or patch through your indent program, it had better be smart enough to mung the patches I send out too, so that patch can apply them automatically to your mangled version. You don't really want to install 27 largish patches by hand, do you? Larry Wall {allegra,burdvax,cbosgd,hplabs,ihnp4,sdcsvax}!sdcrdcf!lwall