Re: Code Formatters

[Simon Wright <simon@pogner.demon.co.uk>]

Dave Smith <david.h.smith@gecm.com> writes:

> Surely what we need are decent development environments with
> good language sensitive editors. These should be able to read
> a file containing the "rules" to be used for layout, the indenting,
> capitalization, etc. being done as the code is typed in. 

The old Rational Environment looked like this, to the user. I'm not
sure if it was even possible to write eg Text_IO! I'm not familiar
with APEX, perhaps it works similarly?

Of course, any help is welcome (eg, emacs ada-mode).

But I strongly agree with the person who wrote that the programmer who
cares enough to get the surface details right is likely to care about
the deeper aspects too. I tend to look at it the other way round; if
he doesn't care what his work looks like, why should I suppose he
cares about what it does?

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