Jim Moy

8/29/2005

Style wars

Filed under: Geek — jbm @ 7:15 pm

ROTFL

http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=74230

“…coding style is an essentially solved problem, and we ought to stop worrying about it. And to stop worrying about it will require worrying about it a lot first, because the only way to get from where we are to a place where we stop worrying about style is to enforce it as part of the language.”

“Perl is a vast swamp of lexical and syntactic swill and nobody knows how to format even their own code well, but it’s the only major language I can think of … that doesn’t have at least one style that’s good enough.”

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