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From: Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Gloster@ACM.org>
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Subject: Re: Software Quality in Science
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 2010 18:48:28 +0000
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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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Colin Paul Gloster responded:

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On Mon, 15 Feb 2010, Maciej Sobczak wrote:

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|"On 15 Lut, 12:20, Colin Paul Gloster <Colin_Paul_Glos...@ACM.org>|
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|> if (condition) statement;                                       |
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|In Ada that would be:                                             |
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|if Condition then Statement; end if;                              |
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|which is equally ugly.                                            |
|Could you clarify your point?"                                    |
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Of course <=> Yes. Yes even #lines of code vary among
programmers. Given one programmer and C++ then
if (condition) statement;
would result whereas changing the language but not the programmer
would result in
if Condition then Statement; end if;

A different programmer would produce
if (condition)
{
  statement;
}
or
if Condition
then
  Statement;
end if;
depending on language.

Yet a different programmer would produce
if (condition {
  statement;
}
or
if Condition then
  Statement;
end if;
depending on language.