On Mon, 2013-01-14 at 11:24 -0800, Walter Bright wrote: > Quite a nice read on the coding style used in Doom. > > http://kotaku.com/5975610/the-exceptional-beauty-of-doom-3s-source-code?post=56177550
On the other hand I don't like some parts of the style he is putting forward as good. Go has an extreme position on this, there is one and only one style of code that is acceptable, the one defined in the gofmt program that is used to format all Go code. I happen not to like some parts of it, but I live with the enforced style. Python is less extreme, in that there are many styles of code allowed, but there is PEP-8 which is "Python style as Guido intended". This is supported by the pep8 program for enforcing elements of style. I have disagreement with some of the choices, but I live with it, and format my code to PEP-8 except for the line length rule – which is just so 1980s. C, C++, D, Fortran, Groovy, probably need to learn a lesson from one or other of these. The issue is that having a single global style standard for a programming language makes it easier to read code in that language. -- Russel. ============================================================================= Dr Russel Winder t: +44 20 7585 2200 voip: sip:russel.win...@ekiga.net 41 Buckmaster Road m: +44 7770 465 077 xmpp: rus...@winder.org.uk London SW11 1EN, UK w: www.russel.org.uk skype: russel_winder
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