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- From: crawford@church.mitre.org (Randy Crawford)
- Subject: Re: Teaching the basics
- Message-ID: <1992Aug27.174256.2081@linus.mitre.org>
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- References: <MJN.92Aug23031941@pseudo.uucp> <7116@charon.cwi.nl> <PSU.92Aug26091352@ptero.cs.duke.edu>
- Date: Thu, 27 Aug 1992 17:42:56 GMT
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- In article <PSU.92Aug26091352@ptero.cs.duke.edu>, psu@cs.duke.edu (Peter Su) writes:
- > In article <1992Aug26.111240.8239@ITcorp.com> geoff@ITcorp.com (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
- >
- > Learn to use indent, or Emacs C-mode.
- >
- > Code formatting is irrelevant, because programs like indent let you
- > format the code anyway you like.
- >
- > It's amazing to me that universities waste so much time and effort
- > teaching people how to format code.
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- Either you don't comment your code, or you don't use indent. Indent
- plays havoc with comments. For that very reason, no one I know uses
- indent.
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