From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English)
Subject: Re: Code Formatters
Date: 1996/11/05
Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55nivq$9jd@saturn.brighton.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 55ncui$ois@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us
Philip Brashear (brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us) wrote:
: 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.
I always tell my students that the compiler is far more forgiving
about layout than I am: "If I can't read it, I won't mark it".
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Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-10-28 0:00 Code Formatters Dave Smith
1996-10-29 0:00 ` Frank C. Post
1996-11-01 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-11-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Philip Brashear
1996-11-05 0:00 ` John English [this message]
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Ole-Hjalmar Kristensen FOU.TD/DELAB
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-05 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Dave Smith
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Larry Kilgallen
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-06 0:00 ` Mike Stark
1996-11-07 0:00 ` Axel Boness
1996-11-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-11-09 0:00 ` Simon Wright
1996-11-12 0:00 ` Axel Boness
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1996-11-05 0:00 Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93
1996-11-14 0:00 Simon Johnston
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