Re: OT: Why is C so popular?
On Thu, 2003-08-28 at 22:15, Jacob Anawalt wrote:
> Steve Lamb wrote:
>
> >On Wed, 27 Aug 2003 23:52:35 -0600
> >Jacob Anawalt <jacob@cachevalley.com> wrote:
[snip]
> > Hence it is not other people's style I dislike, it is the freakin' braces.
> >
> >
> >
> Good thing there's Python for you and other !brace people then. Maybe
> someday I'll catch onto the concept. For now, I'm OK with braces. :)
>
> I had only posted this because the full message had a complaint about it
> taking hours to debug C code because of the inconsistancy in
> indentation/placement of braces. My solution for that has been $ indent
> <horribly indented code>.c.
And then when you check the file back into cvs, it grinds away at
a whole-file differential...
The solution, though, is an Organizational Standard that must be
followed.
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