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From: brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us (Philip Brashear)
Subject: Re: Code Formatters
Date: 1996/11/05
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Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00
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In article <dewar.847124036@merv>, Robert Dewar <dewar@merv.cs.nyu.edu> wrote:
>In fact the only kind of software engineers that I would be willing to pay
>are those who DO worry about the style of their code, and take some pride
>in laying it out and documenting it in an elegant manner.

Right on, Robert!
That's why I drive my Ada students (at the University of Dayton) absolutely
NUTS by talking so much about style, readability, etc.

If the code is not reasonably formatted, then it's difficult to read, hence
difficult to understand; hence difficult to get right (not to mention that
minor activity called "maintenance")!

Phil Brashear