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=0.2 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID, REPLYTO_WITHOUT_TO_CC autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: f5d71,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gidf5d71,public X-Google-Thread: 146b77,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid146b77,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d275ffeffdf83655 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: cbbrowne@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne) Subject: Re: Ada vs C++ vs Java Date: 1999/01/20 Message-ID: <6Oap2.16170$MW1.4028@news2.giganews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 434640615 References: <369C1F31.AE5AF7EF@concentric.net> <369DDDC3.FDE09999@sea.ericsson.se> <369e309a.32671759@news.demon.co.uk> <369F1D39.64A65BC1@sea.ericsson.se> <369f81a9.31040093@news.demon.co.uk> <77ommt$9bo$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vhjf$nn9$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <77vld9$qvg$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <782rp0$kn6$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> X-Trace: news2.giganews.com 916797698 216.88.73.45 (Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:01:38 CDT) Reply-To: cbbrowne@hex.net NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 19 Jan 1999 20:01:38 CDT Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++,comp.vxworks,comp.lang.java,comp.lang.ada Date: 1999-01-20T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: On Tue, 19 Jan 1999 21:00:22 GMT, robert_dewar@my-dejanews.com wrote: >P.P.S. I find it a very bad idea not to standardize on >brackets placement in C/C++. It is a perfect example of >an issue where there can be no advantage in inconsistency. >If you really have programmers who would quit rather than >follow shop standards on such minor details, they will be >unmanageable on more major things, and it is good to find >that out in advance. And this is an example of putting concentration in the wrong place. There are automated indentation utilities such as GNU Indent that know how to cope with a wide variety of styles. If there are programmers who prefer one format, and others that prefer another, they can have a common format imposed on the CVS archives, and then use what ever format they prefer personally on checked out copies. If the organization or the people are so inflexible that something like this isn't possible, then something's wrong. -- "In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?" -- Warren Hutcherson cbbrowne@hex.net-