From: asch@aisb.ed.ac.uk (Andreas Schoter)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/24
Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4qm5eu$edt@scotsman.ed.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nh3f3pppsl.fsf@paralysys
Nasser Abbasi (nasser@apldbio.com) wrote:
: I'd like to research this further and find out how do Cobol and PLi and
: Basic and other programmer write, and see if there is a correlation
: between the emotional/cultural profile of the programmer and between
: the tyep of the language they use and the manner of which they write
: in it.
Well, Prolog has certain typographical conventions: any identifier
beginning with an upper case letter is a variable, so naturally
VariableNames tend to LookLikeThis, whilst any identifier beginning with
a lower case letter is an atom, so by analogy, I guess, atom_names tend
to look_like_this.
Since both idioms exist in the programs that I read/write I actually
don't find either to be harder to read than the other... Oh, and I seem
to have carried the same typographical convention over to my C and SML
programming, except in C, of course, there are also DEFINED_CONSTANTS
and keywords. Am I glad there's such a thing as colour-coded syntax
highlighting!
And the next question, why am I wasting my time with this?
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1996-06-21 0:00 Language Choice and Coding style Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Giuliano Carlini
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Louis Tribble
1996-06-21 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-06-21 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-23 0:00 ` mfinney
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-26 0:00 ` mfinney
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Fergus Henderson
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Jakob Engblom
1996-07-08 0:00 ` John Byerly
1996-07-08 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Mike Curtis
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Language Choice and Coding style John McCabe
1996-07-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Dan Evens
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Phil Howard
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-19 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Andrew Gierth
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Language Choice and Coding style The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-21 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
[not found] ` <4qeu56$52r@news.interpath.net>
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Michael R. Hartwig
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Andreas Schoter [this message]
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Rich Maggio
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` ++ robin
[not found] ` <JSA.96Jun26141502@organon.com>
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Russel A Hill
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Russel A Hill
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Mark Eichin
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-03 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-06 0:00 ` N. L. Sizemore
1996-07-08 0:00 ` steidl
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1996-06-27 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-06-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
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1996-07-05 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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