Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/5/84; site baylor.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!allegra!mit-eddie!think!harvard!seismo!ut-sally!ut-ngp!shell!neuro1!baylor!peter From: peter@baylor.UUCP (Peter da Silva) Newsgroups: net.lang Subject: Re: Re: Reading programs left-to-right. (LONG) Message-ID: <446@baylor.UUCP> Date: Sat, 17-Aug-85 22:21:01 EDT Article-I.D.: baylor.446 Posted: Sat Aug 17 22:21:01 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 24-Aug-85 02:23:35 EDT References: <6571@boring.UUCP> <10984@rochester.UUCP> <242@ecsvax.UUCP> Organization: The Power Elite, Houston, TX Lines: 11 > computations). It is much easier for *ME* to parse the line and ignore > the irrelevant sections if the destination appears on the left. Have you > ever looked through a program trying to find the rightmost reference in > a set of lines of varying lengths? Particularly if many lines have > comments in the latter spaces on the line? So right-justify your programs! Make nroff a programming aid! :-> -- Peter da Silva (the mad Australian werewolf) UUCP: ...!shell!neuro1!{hyd-ptd,baylor,datafac}!peter MCI: PDASILVA; CIS: 70216,1076