From: Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>
To: "François Pinard" <pinard@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Bernt Hansen <bernt@norang.ca>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Capitalisation and good taste ?
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:19:23 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87pqeri7c4.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87boqc9lok.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> ("François Pinard"'s message of "Tue, 10 Jan 2012 00:22:03 -0500")
pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
[...]
> Should I say, I notice a strong correlation between rotten software and
> the lack of attention to such details. I'm not saying that avoiding
> trailing white space is a guarantee of good software. But I'm saying
> that people unwilling to pay attention to details are not prone to pay
> attention for a lot of other things, which is not good for software.
What is interesting, to me, is that some of these details come down to
style preferences *and* that these preferences can change dramatically
over time. I have been programming for 35+ years and it's scary to see
how my preferences have changed, sometimes cycling several times with a
period of 5 or more years!
I am thinking especially about things like indentation rules, blank
lines, multi-line versus single line comments, variable names, case
(cf. this thread), etc. Of course, the language in use affects the
choices available but there are always choices, none of which is
automatically and permanently correct.
cheers,
eric
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Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-10 3:19 Capitalisation and good taste ? François Pinard
2012-01-10 3:55 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-10 5:13 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-10 5:35 ` François Pinard
2012-01-10 7:37 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-10 14:59 ` François Pinard
2012-01-10 15:46 ` Nick Dokos
2012-01-10 19:32 ` Bastien
2012-01-10 19:38 ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-10 19:55 ` Bastien
2012-01-10 20:18 ` François Pinard
2012-01-10 20:57 ` Martyn Jago
2012-01-11 7:49 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-01-14 22:15 ` François Pinard
2012-01-14 23:01 ` Sebastien Vauban
2012-01-11 15:40 ` Bastien
2012-01-14 22:25 ` François Pinard
2012-01-11 15:38 ` Bastien
2012-01-11 20:47 ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-11 20:57 ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-11 21:26 ` [PATCH] " Thomas S. Dye
2012-01-11 22:42 ` Eric Schulte
2012-01-12 7:42 ` Bastien
2012-01-10 5:22 ` François Pinard
2012-01-10 17:45 ` Tommy Kelly
2012-01-10 21:19 ` Eric S Fraga [this message]
2012-01-10 23:41 ` Sankalp
2012-01-21 4:00 ` Leo Alekseyev
2012-01-21 12:16 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-21 20:08 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-01-21 23:03 ` Bernt Hansen
2012-01-23 8:49 ` Eric S Fraga
2012-01-24 14:42 ` Bastien
2012-01-10 21:13 ` Eric S Fraga
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