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- From: j-jahnke@uchicago.edu (Jerome Jahnke)
- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
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- Date: Wed, 10 Apr 1996 08:43:06 GMT
-
- In article <4kc2qa$6os@ni1.ni.net>, andyc@procom.com (Andy Ho-Fan Chan) wrote:
-
- > In article <j-jahnke-0604960016160001@ntcs-ip8.uchicago.edu>,
- j-jahnke@uchicago.edu (Jerome Jahnke) wrote:
- > >And if you think about it, it is a lot easier to find a BEGIN and END in a
- > >chunk of code than a { and }. They are just bigger and easier to spot.
- > >Which is why many code editors color the code so you can find things like
- > >braces and what nots.
- >
- > Well, I like the '{' and '}' so much since it needs least typing. Also, it
- > can fasten the compile time too.
-
- When I am programming I too like the braces, makes life easier when it is
- only one keystroke. Although it is a shifted keystroke. But anyway, as to
- it speeding up your compile times, what kind of drug are you on? I used to
- work with a jarhead that thought that the shorter he could make variable
- and argument names the faster he could compile. It made reading his code
- hell as you might imagine, all his var names and arguments were a single
- character.
-
- To be honest the machines are fast enough now that you won't EVER notice
- the difference between using braces and BEGIN END's. If you do, you are
- way too geeky. Technically it is 4 times as fast, but we are talking about
- miliseconds here. Sheesh.
-
- Jer,
-
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- Jerome Jahnke
- BSD Academic Computing
- University of Chicago
- j-jahnke@uchicago.edu
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