From: hartwig@hartwig.lfso.loral.com (Michael R. Hartwig)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/24
Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <wymbui9i1du.fsf@hartwig.lfso.loral.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: nh3f3pppsl.fsf@paralysys
In article <nh3f3pppsl.fsf@paralysys> nasser@apldbio.com (Nasser Abbasi)
writes:
> Tonight I'd like to ask a question I've always been afraid to ask.
>
> I'd like to know why do C and C++ programmer
>
> pchWriteInThisStargeAndHardToReadWayLikeThis while the Ada programmers
>
> Write_In_Clear_And_Nice_Way_Like_This ??
[snip]
> My own personal analysis of the situation after long thought is that
> it is a cultural thing.
>
> Most C and C++ programmers are more hippy , 1960's type, type of people,
> the anti-establishment crowd, who just want to be different, and so
> they adjust the code more so by WritingItLikeTHis so that the unique
> personality of the C/C++ programmer comes out in distinctive way from
> the rest of the programmer community at large.
I'm confused. If most C/C++ programmers have runTogetherFunctionNames,
how can it be "distinctive", "different", and "anti-establishment"?
[snip]
> I don't think I've seen Ada code written the C/C++ way, and I dont
> think I've seen C/C++ code writeen the Ada way. I've seen code
> written like_this_with_no_upper_case which is C/C++ code, but that
> was very rare.
I've seen both styles in both languages.
[snip]
> Well, thank you in advance for your opinion on this subject.
> nasser
My opinion is quite simple -- I prefer runTogether over
using_underscore_characters because 'shift-_' is slower to type than
runTogether. I don't feel that runTogether is hard to read at all, so I
continue to use it.
BTW, *either* style is much easier to read, IMO, than
ALL_UPPERCASE_WITH_UNDERSCORES.
Michael
--
Michael Hartwig
Lockheed Martin Federal Systems, Owego, NY
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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 Weller
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Giuliano Carlini
1996-06-21 0:00 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-23 0:00 ` mfinney
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-26 0:00 ` mfinney
1996-06-23 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
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 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-05 0:00 ` software engineering and the notion of authorship Fergus Henderson
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Jakob Engblom
1996-07-08 0:00 ` John Byerly
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 ` The Amorphous Mass
1996-07-08 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
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
1996-07-05 0:00 ` Language Choice and Coding style John McCabe
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Dan Evens
1996-07-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-02 0:00 ` Samuel Mize
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Jeff Dege
1996-07-03 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-04 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Phil Howard
1996-07-04 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-03 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-28 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-07-02 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
1996-06-27 0:00 ` Language Choice and Coding style The Amorphous Mass
1996-06-21 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Dr. John B. Matthews
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 ` David Emery
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 ` Theodore E. Dennison
1996-06-24 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Peter Hermann
1996-07-01 0:00 ` Alan Brain
1996-07-02 0:00 ` John McCabe
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Adam Beneschan
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Ian Ward
1996-06-26 0:00 ` Nasser Abbasi
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Michael R. Hartwig [this message]
1996-06-24 0:00 ` Andreas Schoter
1996-06-29 0:00 ` Rich Maggio
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
[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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