Re: Is Unicode character a vowel?

I despise almost every aspect of standard K&R style. Politely put, it sucks. It is an
exeptionally POOR model for good programming style, as far as I'm concerned. I usually
just reformat anything in this style so it can be read.
joe

On Tue, 8 May 2007 08:08:26 -0700, "Alexander Grigoriev" <alegr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

You wouldn't like K&R accent, would you? Try to read IP stack code from BSD.
Oh no, you'll get sick.

"Joseph M. Newcomer" <newcomer@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, we all program with an accent. It is so noticeable that I can pretty
much tell which
textbook was used in an intro programming course taken by the programmer.
In a WIndows
programmer, you can spot a "Petzold accent" quite readily (poor code
structure, lots of
global variables...) Not only do we have accents, we have "speech
affectations" (I have my
own, carefully cultivated, y'know old chappie. Like my use of comments
after nearly every
{ and }.). Some accents are so strong that the code is unreadable; for
example, people
who put commas in declaration lists, and don't put spaces around operators
or after
commas, are nearly unintelligible. People who put more than one statement
on a line are
very hard to understand. People who put a { at the end of a line instead
of on the next
line, properly indented. And so on.
joe

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