From: dewar@cs.nyu.edu (Robert Dewar)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/23
Date: 1996-06-23T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <dewar.835574607@schonberg> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 4qjvk5$e93@mujibur.inmind.com
"It is fundamentally an issue of writing and detecting word breaks
and what reads easiest. I suspect that using _ to separate words
doesn't work well because in many cases it is hard to read -- especially
when printing with very little leading between lines. I tried both
styles (once I had lower case characters available) and simply found
that the squashedTogetherStyle reads better. Not to mention that
the use of the shift key is easier for a touch typist than constantly
hitting the _ key."
First, the underline used as a break character should be printed ON the
base line, NOT in the underline position, many fonts are defective in
this respect.
Second, I think convenience of the typist is monumentally unimportant,
and not a criterion that should be used in discussions of how code should
be layed out.
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Thread overview: 84+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1996-06-21 0:00 Language Choice and Coding style Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-21 0:00 ` David Emery
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Louis Tribble
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Jerry van Dijk
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
1996-06-21 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-27 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-06-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert A Duff
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-05 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Fergus Henderson
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Jakob Engblom
1996-07-08 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-09 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-11 0:00 ` Paul Eggert
1996-07-08 0:00 ` John Byerly
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Ralph Silverman
1996-07-15 0:00 ` Fergus Henderson
1996-07-17 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-19 0:00 ` Mike Curtis
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Language Choice and Coding style Dan Evens
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Phil Howard
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-06 0:00 ` Laurent Guerby
1996-07-19 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Andrew Gierth
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Language Choice and Coding style mfinney
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1996-06-26 0:00 ` mfinney
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Giuliano Carlini
1996-06-21 0:00 ` David Weller
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Darin Johnson
[not found] ` <4qeu56$52r@news.interpath.net>
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Michael R. Hartwig
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Andreas Schoter
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` ++ robin
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Rich Maggio
[not found] ` <JSA.96Jun26141502@organon.com>
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Russel A Hill
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Russel A Hill
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Richard A. O'Keefe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Jon S Anthony
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Mark Eichin
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-07-03 0:00 ` steidl
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-06 0:00 ` N. L. Sizemore
1996-07-08 0:00 ` steidl
[not found] <835824850.11044.0@assen.demon.co.uk>
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-06-27 0:00 ` John McCabe
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1996-07-05 0:00 Robert C. Leif, Ph.D.
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