Re: Language Choice and Coding style

[giuliano@ix.netcom.com(Giuliano Carlini)]

In <nh3f3pppsl.fsf@paralysys> nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi)
writes: 
>
>
>Tonight I'd like to ask a question I've always been afraid to ask.
>
>I'd like to know why do C and C++ programmer 
>
>pchWriteInThisStargeAndHardToReadWayLikeThis while the Ada programmers

>Write_In_Clear_And_Nice_Way_Like_This ??
>
>Is this a cultural thing?

Yeah it is.

>Most  C and C++ programmers are more hippy , 1960's type, type of
people,
>the anti-establishment crowd, who just want to be different, and so
> 
>While the Ada programmers seem to be more of the conservative type, 
>the type who would never go faster than 55 mph even in the middle of
dead 
>valley where there is no traffic for miles on stretch, the type who

But, not in this way. I've seen both "hippies" and "straights" using
both
languages. In fact a C++ programmer who wanted to be different
Would_Write_Like_This
because no other C++ programmers do. TheyWriteLikeThis for the same
reason that
Ada programmers Write_Like_This.

They both follow the conventions which existed when they started
programming in that
language. C++ programmers adopted the Smalltalk style. I believe the
Smalltalk style
came from following the Simula style. Ada programmers followed the
Pascal style who
I believe had followed the Algol style. These styles started in
different places in
different times by different people, so it isn't surprising that two
different styles
were created. And given that people tend to adopt what has come before,
it is normal
that they both still exist today in two different domains which don't
interact much.

Personally, I prefer Reading_Identifiers_Like_This. But I adopt the
convention of the language
I'm writing in. To do otherwise would silly.

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