Date: Fri, 11 Feb 2005 15:49:27 +0100 From: "Poul-Henning Kamp" <phk@phk.freebsd.dk> To: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> Cc: cvs-src@freebsd.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ed if_ed.c Message-ID: <11296.1108133367@critter.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sat, 12 Feb 2005 00:49:03 %2B1100." <20050212001652.L32719@delplex.bde.org>
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In message <20050212001652.L32719@delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes: >Guess which style is used in one-true-awk. If I had stuck religiously to programming the way the giants who went before me did, I would be writing assembler on 5 hole BAUDOT paper tape. While it is admirable that Brian Kernighan insist on writing the most elegant and simple code, it does not work well outside an environment where you can post signs saying "You're not supposed to understand this" and get away with it. In other words, this is not about what Bruce, Poul-Henning, Ken, Dennis or Brian find it easier to read, it is about what Samuel B. Nobody finds it easier to read when Poul-Henning or Bruce wrote it. That's almost, but not entirely unlike what you are saying. -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence.
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