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- From: vputz@nyx.cs.du.edu (Victor Putz)
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- Subject: Re: Young programmers read me.
- Date: 19 Apr 1996 06:25:40 -0600
- Organization: University of Denver, Math/CS Dept.
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- For what it's worth:
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- After maintaining a large project over a few years, the
- maintenance simplicity and ease of updates I gained from
- a set and written programming style have been great, and
- one of the biggest improvements was the addition of
- pure-block formatting with braces around every conditional.
- At least in my case, it really is a very large improvement
- in readability and maintainability.
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- I don't do assignments in conditionals either. And you
- know what? The difference in code size and speed is either
- nonexistant or minimal at best.
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- IMHO, the extra braces are DEFINATELY worth the extra
- effort, particularly when sharing code.
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