On 2013-58-15 11:01, Russel Winder <[email protected]> wrote:
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.
I agree a canonical form could be nice. Even so, I am firmly of the
opinion that such should not be forced upon programmers. Prettifiers
certainly can help here.
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Simen
