Re: OT - trivial programming language

[dircha <dircha@dircha.com>]

Micha Feigin wrote:
> On Sat, May 29, 2004 at 04:50:09PM -0500, dircha wrote:
> Actually the best method when collaborating on someone else's work is
> to adopt their coding style. If its a joint work then you should a 
> agree on a coding style in the first place.
>
> On my last job, every new programmer had as part of the training to 
> read the coding style specifications for the company, and in properly
> collaborated projects its supposed to be very hard to notice which
> parts were written by which programmers.

I concur!

Hence, I conclude:

> > The best proposal is to mandate a fixed tab width or spaces per
> > indent level, and mandate wrapping for a fixed column width.
> >
> > I'm ready to argue that this should generally be 4-character spaces
> > and 80 column wrapping.

But then probably no one else would have read through to the end of my 
post either - better your succinct summary.

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dircha