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From: hartwig@hartwig.lfso.loral.com (Michael R. Hartwig)
Subject: Re: Language Choice and Coding style
Date: 1996/06/24
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organization: Lockheed Martin Federal Systems
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Date: 1996-06-24T00:00:00+00:00
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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