On Friday, 18 January 2013 at 01:59:18 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 1/14/2013 3:19 PM, Timon Gehr wrote:
It is funny how statements about beauty of code tend to
overemphasize the
importance of trivial formatting rules. This is completely
irrational.
Formatting is a part of the process that could be trivially
automated. It is not
what the substance is.
Pedantically, you are correct.
But in practice, I find over and over again that carefully
formatted code tends to go hand in hand with well designed code.
It's like internet postings.
Also like spam vs. not spam email
