From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: smize@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM (Samuel Mize) Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style Date: 1996/06/29 Message-ID: <4r3bp1$cea@Starbase.NeoSoft.COM>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 162767979 references: <4quk22$78@krusty.irvine.com> <4r059t$2at0@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de> organization: NeoSoft, Inc. +1 713 968 5800 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++ Date: 1996-06-29T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article , Robert A Duff wrote: >In article <4r059t$2at0@info4.rus.uni-stuttgart.de>, >Peter Hermann wrote: >>for one thing i have an extreme antipathy: >>the enforcement of rules which do not have a useful justification. >>if someone chooses for himself to carve all in CAPS, he may >>freely do so, but he should not bother me to request this from me. > >Software "engineering" is the only engineering discipline I know of >where the practitioners commonly take this "cowboy" attitude -- "you can >do things however you like; just let *me* do things *my* way." It works >OK on one-person projects, but as soon as two or more people have to >work together on the same program, it's a disaster. This is true, and in keeping with Ada/Software Engineering philosophy. (A lot of hackers call themselves "software engineers" -- they're as truly "engineers" as are "sanitation engineers." There are also people really trying to create an engineering discipline, and have been for decades.) Anyway, for this particular small area -- code formatting -- the best approach is to use a formatting editor, so everybody can set up his *own* preferences and see the code the way *he* finds most readable. (Or she.) Samuel Mize