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- From: martinc@hatteras.cs.unc.edu (Charles R. Martin)
- Newsgroups: comp.software-eng
- Subject: Re: C code Layout
- Message-ID: <MARTINC.92Dec16111734@hatteras.cs.unc.edu>
- Date: 16 Dec 92 16:17:34 GMT
- References: <1992Dec14.175533.8400@fcom.cc.utah.edu>
- <1992Dec14.235521.1557@cbnewsm.cb.att.com>
- <KANZE.92Dec15171105@slsvdnt.us-es.sel.de>
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- Organization: UNC Department of Computer Science
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- In-reply-to: rcd@raven.eklektix.com's message of 16 Dec 92 08:37:33 GMT
-
- In article <1992Dec16.083733@eklektix.com> rcd@raven.eklektix.com (Dick Dunn) writes:
-
- kanze@us-es.sel.de (James Kanze) writes:
- >lfd@cbnewsm.cb.att.com (Lee Derbenwick) writes:
- >|> One reason that I personally dislike very large comments embedded in
- >|> the code is that they greatly reduce the amount of code within my
- >|> visual field (whether on a screen or on paper):...
- ...
-
- Scott McGregor talks about the same phenomenon (and some of the tradeoffs
- surrounding it) in considerably more detail. But it's a good point in any
- case.
-
- But then ... it was just one news item ago that you were enjoining us to
- get tools that suit the job rather than perverting the work to suit the
- tool. Doesn't that apply to 25-character screens as well?
-
- I'm actually serious -- an acquaintance seriously noted that getting
- full-page screens for their terminals improve productivity substantially
- on a big project, just because it allowed holding a whole function in
- one screenful.
-
-
-
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