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- From: mambuhl@ripco.com (Martin Ambuhl)
- Subject: Re: PROGRAMERS OF ANY LAN
- Message-ID: <Dpoty7.6oG@rci.ripco.com>
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- Date: Thu, 11 Apr 1996 07:54:07 GMT
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- Max Waterman <dwater@wight.hursley.ibm.com> in
- <316A6189.4287@wight.hursley.ibm.com> wrote:
-
- >Why use {/} ? Why not just get the compiler to recognise the indentation?
- >Does anyone out there not indent and extra width for a block? It's rare to
- >get the indentation wrong but it's common to forget to put the {/}s in -
- >especially when changing code.
-
- You're kidding, right? What programmers are these that magically get
- indentation "right" but can't remember how blocks are properly
- delimited? I shouldn't be surprised, given the *.ibm.com address. I
- suffered though multiple bad languages in the early- and mid-60s on IBM
- machines which required the use of specific placement for different
- language elements.
-
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