cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA (01/16/85)
/* martin minow @decvax.uucp mentions a programmer who uses label: ... goto label; to delimit an outer loop that goes on for pages as you can easily lose track of nesting levels. flame: anyone who does that .... nice: please dont write code like that. each funxion should be entirely on one page. use form feeds to separate pages. thank you. */
bsa@ncoast.UUCP (Brandon Allbery (the tame hacker on the North Coast)) (01/24/85)
> Article <7404@brl-tgr.ARPA>, from cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA +---------------- | nice: please dont write code like that. each funxion should | be entirely on one page. use form feeds to separate pages. | thank you. I have yet to make form feeds readable or useful in my C code. Having a line consisting of ^L in vi isn't much of an improvement. And I've found that making EVERY function fit on 54 lines can sometimes make things even harder to understand. Don't foist your ideas on C aesthetics off on others like that, just mention that that's your favorite method. --bsa -- Brandon Allbery @ decvax!cwruecmp!ncoast!bsa (..ncoast!tdi1!bsa business) 6504 Chestnut Road, Independence, Ohio 44131 +1 216 524 1416 (or what have you) Who said you had to be (a) a poor programmer or (b) a security hazard to be a hacker?
david@ukma.UUCP (David Herron, NPR Lover) (01/26/85)
In article <7404@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA "comments": >/* >martin minow @decvax.uucp mentions a programmer who uses > > label: ... > goto label; > >to delimit an outer loop that goes on for pages as you can easily >lose track of nesting levels. > >flame: anyone who does that .... >nice: please dont write code like that. each funxion should > be entirely on one page. use form feeds to separate pages. > thank you. >*/ 1. Ok. Fine. Putting form-feeds in the code may make sense to you. There are just a few problems with this. Namely, the V7 compiler would barf on an illegal character, if you two column your output using pr(1) (to save paper...) pr dies horrible deaths on the form-feed character, you infuriate me because I (sometimes) like to have my printout two column. 2. DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME HOW TO WRITE MY CODE!!!! I'LL MESS IT UP IN MY OWN WAY, THANK YOU!!!!
mac@tesla.UUCP (Michael Mc Namara) (01/30/85)
> In article <7404@brl-tgr.ARPA> cottrell@nbs-vms.ARPA "comments": > >/* > >martin minow @decvax.uucp mentions a programmer who uses > > > > label: ... > > goto label; > > > >to delimit an outer loop that goes on for pages as you can easily > >lose track of nesting levels. > > > >flame: anyone who does that .... > >nice: please dont write code like that. each funxion should > > be entirely on one page. use form feeds to separate pages. > > thank you. > >*/ > > 1. Ok. Fine. Putting form-feeds in the code may make sense to you. > There are just a few problems with this. Namely, the V7 compiler > would barf on an illegal character, if you two column your output > using pr(1) (to save paper...) pr dies horrible deaths on the > form-feed character, you infuriate me because I (sometimes) like to > have my printout two column. > > 2. DON'T YOU DARE TELL ME HOW TO WRITE MY CODE!!!! > > I'LL MESS IT UP IN MY OWN WAY, THANK YOU!!!! Yeah! The last CS cource I took, where the grader (who didn't understand "C" to save her life) chocked of about 25% of style grade because she liked little idiosynchronisities like correct spelling :-) in comments and big blocks around comments, et cetera, also left no password set on her account.... Who could blame the frustrated little hacker, discovering this, from creating a nice .login that (1) printed a "cute" message giving that hacker's opinion of her grading methods; (2) copied the .login to some safe place; (3) moved in a generic .login; (4) and when she logged off, an at(1) script copied back in the "neat" .login? A little check three days later showed [1] A password set; [2] the .login scam STILL working!!!! The hacker felt a *little* sorry for the grader. /*************************************************************/ /* */ /* The next program the hacker turned in HAD nice comment */ /* blocks..... */ /* */ /*************************************************************/ ___________________MY-NAME-MIGHT-BE-JOHN-DOE__________________________________