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: 1696ae,de62d506c7cf194a X-Google-Attributes: gid1696ae,public X-Google-Thread: 109fba,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid109fba,public X-Google-Thread: fc89c,de62d506c7cf194a X-Google-Attributes: gidfc89c,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Thread: 1014db,d95b511473b3a931 X-Google-Attributes: gid1014db,public X-Google-Thread: f43e6,8ff817fc5c863f82 X-Google-Attributes: gidf43e6,public From: andrewg@microlise.co.uk (Andrew Gierth) Subject: Re: software engineering and the notion of authorship Date: 1996/07/19 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 169663653 x-nntp-posting-host: microl.demon.co.uk references: <4quk22$78@krusty.irvine.com> followup-to: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.software-eng organization: Microlise Engineering Ltd. newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,comp.lang.c,comp.lang.c++,comp.unix.programmer,comp.dos.programmer,comp.software-eng Date: 1996-07-19T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: [This thread should never have been injected into comp.unix.programmer. Would all respondents *please* take that into account. Followups set.] Mike Curtis wrote: >Robert Dewar wrote: >------ ------- >> .... but it would never have occurred >> to me to react to that awkwardness by insisting on continuing to SHOUT when >> I wrote MY_IDENTIFIERS! Instead I conformed and quickly got used to the new >> style (now it would be hard to go back). >> > >Ah Robert, but if you were insisting on writing the code in Ada and everyone else >wanted to use C would you fall in with them so readily. > >Mike