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: 103376,8811b64ee948c3e3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: je@bton.ac.uk (John English) Subject: Re: Code Formatters Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: <55nivq$9jd@saturn.brighton.ac.uk>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194993646 references: <552nkb$u1k@gcsin3.geccs.gecm.com> <327A17CA.6B30@gsfc.nasa.gov> <55ncui$ois@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us> organization: University of Brighton newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Philip Brashear (brashear@ns1.sw-eng.falls-church.va.us) wrote: : In article , Robert Dewar 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". --------------------------------------------------------------- John English | mailto:je@brighton.ac.uk Senior Lecturer | http://www.comp.it.bton.ac.uk/je Dept. of Computing | fax: (+44) 1273 642405 University of Brighton | ---------------------------------------------------------------