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- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Path: sparky!uunet!mole-end!mat
- From: mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us
- Subject: Re: C code Layout
- Message-ID: <1992Dec13.044836.1363@mole-end.matawan.nj.us>
- Summary: Read Hot Flaming Code, Ye Raving Commenters
- Keywords: C code layout
- Organization: :
- References: <1992Dec12.122453.8582@seq.uncwil.edu>
- Date: Sun, 13 Dec 1992 04:48:36 GMT
- Lines: 28
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- In article <1992Dec12.122453.8582@seq.uncwil.edu>, herbst@seq.uncwil.edu (R.T. Herbst) writes:
- > ...
- > My philosophy is to let the language speak for itself. Add comments
- > where necessary. Again while directing the efforts of hundreds of
- > people on the Safequard Anti-Balistic Missile System, we set standards
- > for commenting that let the code be seen. The project met its objectives
- > and schedule -- one of the few in that time frame.
-
- We see this discussion about every two months. I'm getting tired of
- posting my (by now) boring lecture on Efficient and Final causes and
- how they have to be tracable in code. So this time ...
-
- FLAME ON! (dammit.)
-
- IMO, anyone who hasn't read Kernighan and Plauger's _The Elements of
- Programming Style_ (2nd Ed.) has no right whatsoever to speak on this
- matter--or to write on it.
-
- FLAME OFF! (sigh.)
-
- > Flame on and damned be he or she who flames out.
-
- Flame out? Not me ;')
- --
- (This man's opinions are his own.)
- From mole-end Mark Terribile
-
- mat@mole-end.matawan.nj.us, Somewhere in Matawan, NJ
-