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: "Marin David Condic, 561.796.8997, M/S 731-93" Subject: Re: Code Formatters Date: 1996/11/05 Message-ID: <96110517102615@psavax.pwfl.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 194893179 sender: Ada programming language comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU x-vms-to: SMTP%"INFO-ADA@VM1.NODAK.EDU" newsgroups: comp.lang.ada x-vms-cc: CONDIC Date: 1996-11-05T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: Philip Brashear writes: >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")! > This is all true, but there's another factor to consider. The programmer who is obsessive-compulsive enough to go back over the code, space everything properly, correct the character case of everything, get the indenting right, etc. etc. is also going to be the one who is double checking all the logic as well. Some of it is by virtue of simply reviewing the code - you notice more mistakes. Some of it is by individual mindset. If you're careful enough to get the purely superficial things correct in every detail, you are more likely to be the one agonizing over getting all the fundamental things correct as well. MDC Marin David Condic, Senior Computer Engineer ATT: 561.796.8997 M/S 731-96 Technet: 796.8997 Pratt & Whitney, GESP Fax: 561.796.4669 P.O. Box 109600 Internet: CONDICMA@PWFL.COM West Palm Beach, FL 33410-9600 Internet: CONDIC@FLINET.COM =============================================================================== "Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend; inside a dog, it's too dark to read..." -- Groucho Marx ===============================================================================