Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site brl-tgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!brl-tgr!tgr!moss@BRL.ARPA From: moss@BRL.ARPA (Gary S. Moss (AMXBR-VLD-V)) Newsgroups: net.lang.c Subject: Re: more about programming style Message-ID: <11489@brl-tgr.ARPA> Date: Thu, 11-Jul-85 09:56:00 EDT Article-I.D.: brl-tgr.11489 Posted: Thu Jul 11 09:56:00 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 13-Jul-85 08:53:13 EDT Sender: news@brl-tgr.ARPA Lines: 15 I object to people saying "stuff = stuff + 1" when what they really mean more specifically is "stuff++" or "stuff += 1"". Way before I learned 'C' I felt that this was an awkward way of incrementing a variable. Its like repeating the subject of a sentence, i.e. "Mark is a good boy because Mark ate his peas". I also object to people who don't take the time to learn the basics of a language and pick at the syntax of someone's program because they don't understand it. Writing maintainable programs goes several levels of organization above idiomatic expression, and communication of this to supervisors is far more difficult than someone with your troubles probably realizes. -moss