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Posted by Shelly on 08/04/06 23:56
"Richard Levasseur" <richardlev@gmail.com> wrote in message
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> Shelly wrote:
>> "Andrew DeFaria" <Andrew@DeFaria.com> wrote in message
>> news:44d2bf66$0$96202$742ec2ed@news.sonic.net...
>> > lewis wrote:
>> >> Can we PLEEEASE get beyond this debate? It's boring, and I'd rather
>> >> see some code and talk about PHP....
>> > Is that arthritis that's is keeping your little finger from hitting
>> > whatever your news reader program accepts as skip this message?
>>
>> Frankly, I have rather enjoyed the shenanigans. <TIC> I admire people
>> who
>> want to keep the wheelright and the feather pen makers in business. Who
>> needs automobiles and ball-point pens, anyhow? The old ways worked, so
>> why
>> change them? After all, far more different things can go wrong with a
>> car
>> than with a wooden whell with a metal rim. Those cars are
>> UNMAINTAINABLE.
>> K-I-S-S is a good motto to live by. Down with cars. They are too prone
>> to
>> errors. Up with horse and buggies. </TIC>
>>
>> Shelly
>
> You gotta admit, this was funner than arguing about where the { goes!
Now that you mention it, that has similarities here. I preferred the
structure (in C coding):
if (blah)
{
stuff
}
However when I started consulting, I found that I had to abide by the coding
standards of the client, Since almost all of them used K&R as a standard, I
practiced it as well and soon ALL my code became:
if (blah) {
stuff
}
It wasn't what I wanted, but I had to adjust to the times. Now, I don't
think twice about it and when I write code for myself I use K&R. It is the
same reason for becoming familiar with (ugh!!!!) vi. ALL Unix systems come
with that built in. Of course I carried my emacs with me and put it in
place at the first opportunity.
Here we have someone who can't adjust to the changing world and bemoans the
fact. Adjusting and accepting would lead to second-nature use in short
order.
Has any read "Who Moved My Cheese"? Quite applicable here.
Shelly
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