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From: chris@mimsy.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c
Subject: Re: C Style help requested
Message-ID: <19882@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 29 Sep 89 18:08:39 GMT
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Organization: U of Maryland, Dept. of Computer Science, Coll. Pk., MD 20742
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In article <19860@mimsy.UUCP> cml@tove.umd.edu (Christopher Lott) writes:
>Then there are the "10 Commandments for C Programmers" which I have;
>my version was produced by Henry Spencer.  (also the author?  think so.)

Yes.

>I have saved all of Chris Torek's tutorials that I have seen, all of
>which I can pass on.  They are extremely helpful on technical issues; maybe
>not so much for style.

My `style' is extremely simple:

	indent -d0 -di0 -nfc1		# 4.3BSD-tahoe indent

produces it.

>Another good reference, more general, is _The_Elements_of_Programming_Style_,
>by Kernighan and Plaugher.  (Don't quote me on the authors.)

This is also correct (the authors, I mean, as well as the `more general'
remark); it points more towards correctness and naming issues than towards
finicky points of layout (as I said, mine matches `indent -d0 -di0').
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