Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2001 18:16:31 -0800 From: Rob <europax@home.com> To: Kevin Brunelle <kruptos@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: C style continued.... (Craig and Terry) Message-ID: <3A6F8C7F.BA0FA1C6@home.com> References: <3.0.6.32.20010123091354.009de7c0@mail85.pair.com> <3.0.6.32.20010123095930.00a14550@mail85.pair.com> <3A6DD0B2.B473AF52@netzero.net>
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Kevin Brunelle wrote:
>
> Okay, time for me to jump in, let me make it very clear where I stand on
> this issue. I am K&R all the way. I started learning that way and it
> always made the most sense to me. Besides, K&R is beautiful -- IMO. But
> the real reason I am even contributing to this conversation has to do
> with code you write outside your control. Every bit of code I write for
> myself I write in K&R, but for a college class that I am in it must
> follow the style guide. What does the style guide say? Let's just say
> that you could scare small children with the code submitted for that
> class. It is a mixture of all the worst ideas ever conceived. It is very
> close to some code posted before (included below). Now that is ugly! Not
> only is this a bad thing, because it teaches new programmers how to
> write really ugly code as habit; but, you cannot deviate from style. My
> first program was turned in in K&R style; 40% was the max. grade I could
> get on it. Yeah, a good coder can write in whatever style he/she needs
> to but they don't have to like it. The only time I was happy writing
> code for that class was when we were paired up for final projects. I was
> paired with a person who was a mediocre programmer at best. I was able
> to write 95% of the code, and he made it fit the style guide. ;-)
>
> I guess what I am wasting your bandwidth and hard drive space to say is:
> You are going to have to write ugly code for other people, do you have
> to write it for yourself too?
>
> A little side note here: This teacher is totally stuck in his way of
> doing things. Another issue I had with him was licensing. He wanted all
> the code in class GPL'd I wanted my code to be BSD'd. He said that was
> fine, but any code that wasn't GPL wasn't graded. It took a week to get
> him to elaborate on the issue any further than that, and I am still
> writing under the GPL for the class unless "... an act of god forbids
> it."
>
> >if (
> > i
> > ==
> > 0
> > )
> > {
> > foo(
> > i
> > )
> > ;
> >
> > bar(
> > i
> > )
> > ;
> > }
>
> Kevin Brunelle
> --
Is the above code that new Perl I hear so much about? :) Rob.
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