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From: henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer)
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Subject: Re:  C bites / programming style
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Date: Mon, 30-Sep-85 13:12:55 EDT
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[From two different authors...]

> Of course if you have an indent program that produces  output that is
> acceptable to you, it  really doesn't  matter how  people write their
> code, does it?  

> I have been thinking about building a language formatter for a couple
> years...
> Then we could all stop worrying about this problem and when confronted
> with code we didnt like the 'looks' of, we could run it through our 
> formatter, and read it in the style we want to be accustomed to.

Don't forget to budget for the AI software you will need to do things like
getting comments in the right place.  Paragraphers are not a substitute
for doing the job right the first time, at least not with today's paragrapher
technology.
-- 
				Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
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