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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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On Wed, 10 Feb 2010, Florian Weimer wrote:

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|even lines of code) vary as much among programmers [..]"           |
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Of course. In C++ I produce
if(condition)
{
  statement;
}
but I have been profiling C++ code by someone else which contained
instead
if (condition) statement;
which with a profiler which profiles per line instead of per statement
does not enlighten me as to whether or not the condition has ever been
true.

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|"[..]  This is a bit sad because it means that                     |
|language design does not really matter as far as actual results are|
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You were mistaken.