All,
I vaguely remember from my UNIX and C days that there was a command
named "cb" that was named "Program Beautifier". It took C source file
as input and wrote a file that had the C source in indented and
structured form. There was also a command named "uucleanup" that did a
similar thing with uu (Unix to Unix) transfer scripts.
So it's pretty or beautiful or clean...:-)
This is fun,
Glenn
On July 1, 2005 10:01:49 AM CDT Alex Tweedly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
scribbled:
Thomas McGrath III wrote:
Eric,
Is that what it is really called? Pretty printing? Or is that a
translation thing?
It just sounds a little funny.
It's really called that.
I *think* the name was first used in Lisp back in the 60s ....
certainly it was in common use by the time I got involved in computers
(1970), though it was still a "feature" then; it has become so
ubiquitous that the word itself is less frequently needed these days -
everyone knows programs should be laid out sensibly (even if they
don't agree on what is sensible :-)
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