Date: Sat, 20 Dec 1997 13:45:47 -0500 (EST) From: "John S. Dyson" <dyson@FreeBSD.ORG> To: jkh@time.cdrom.com (Jordan K. Hubbard) Cc: dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu, grog@lemis.com, julian@whistle.com, bde@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Bruce vandalism again Message-ID: <199712201845.NAA00285@dyson.iquest.net> In-Reply-To: <14454.882641857@time.cdrom.com> from "Jordan K. Hubbard" at "Dec 20, 97 10:17:37 am"
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Jordan K. Hubbard said: > > If style(9) is broken, which apparently it is, then it should be fixed. > > It isn't a religious document, but one that should change with the times. > > It's not broken. > So we buck the trend of the Industry? Many/most shops will blow your code away if it isn't ANSI. (Imagine a design review: Why didn't you (another person, not you JKH) declare and instantiate your functions correctly, and default to K&R. Oh right, you are an old programmer, who grew up with K&R; well we don't do that anymore.) -- John | Never try to teach a pig to sing, dyson@freebsd.org | it just makes you look stupid, jdyson@nc.com | and it irritates the pig.
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