From: mark_lundquist@my-deja.com
Subject: Re: Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant
Date: Fri, 22 Dec 2000 06:45:47 GMT
Date: 2000-12-22T06:45:47+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <91utar$kk9$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 3A429639.53D3EA9E@acm.org
In article <3A429639.53D3EA9E@acm.org>,
Marin David Condic <mcondic.nospam@acm.org> wrote:
> Singlespeeder wrote:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately bad coding style is more than mere aesthetics.
> >
>
> Very true.
>
Though it would be better said "...more than mere cosmetics."
Some of us use "aesthetics" and "programming style" interchangeably --
defined as anything that doesn't in and of itself affect the function
of the program. So I would would object to the phrase "mere
aesthetics" -- there's nothing "mere" about it! :-)
Cheers,
mark
Mark Lundquist
Rational Software
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Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-12-20 22:22 Bad coding standards - aesthetics are irrelevant Singlespeeder
2000-12-20 23:46 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-12-21 4:12 ` Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
2000-12-21 11:33 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-21 15:59 ` Stephen Leake
2000-12-21 19:30 ` William Starner
2000-12-21 20:54 ` Florian Weimer
2000-12-22 21:33 ` William Starner
2000-12-22 14:57 ` Bruce or Tracy
2000-12-23 8:04 ` Simon Wright
2000-12-28 0:54 ` mark_lundquist
2000-12-22 15:06 ` Ira D. Baxter
2001-01-03 20:02 ` Wes Groleau
2000-12-21 23:46 ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-22 6:45 ` mark_lundquist [this message]
2000-12-28 16:05 ` Erik Magnuson
2000-12-28 20:16 ` Marin David Condic
2000-12-29 4:05 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-29 12:19 ` Larry Kilgallen
2000-12-29 14:02 ` Tarjei T. Jensen
2000-12-29 16:23 ` Robert Dewar
2000-12-29 14:44 ` Erik Magnuson
2001-01-03 20:12 ` Wes Groleau
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