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- From: mccall@mksol.dseg.ti.com (fred j mccall 575-3539)
- Subject: Re: C code Layout
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.162512.13877@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Organization: Texas Instruments Inc
- References: <771@ulogic.UUCP> <1992Dec23.153137.13423@fcom.cc.utah.edu> <BzqIHE.7p3@rahul.net>
- Distribution: usa
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 16:25:12 GMT
- Lines: 63
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- In <BzqIHE.7p3@rahul.net> kpapai@rahul.net (Ken Papai) writes:
-
- >nmp@mfltd.co.uk (Nic Percival (x5336)) writes:
- >>In article <1992Dec23.153137.13423@fcom.cc.utah.edu>,
- >swillden@news.ccutah.edu (Shawn Willden) writes:
- >>> hartman@ulogic.UUCP (Richard M. Hartman) writes:
- >>>
- >>> [ Styles A and B deleted (you already know what they are) ]
- >>>
- >>> : ... am I in the minority here by preferring style C: and VI editor!!!!
-
- >>> coding styles are discussed massive *FLAMAGE* and LOTS OF SHOUTING IS
- >>> REQUIRED TO DO THE SUBJECT JUSTICE???????
- >>>
- >>> In keeping with internet custom I would suggest to Mr. Hartman that he
- >>> GET A LIFE AND A REAL EDITOR LIKE EMACS AND STOP SCREWING AROUND WITH
- >>> VI FOR HELLS SAKE MAN DONT YOU KNOW THIS IS THE 90S???!?!?!? YOUR
- >>> PROBABLY ONE OF THOSE PINKOCOMMIE WHITESPACELOVING FREAKS TO!!!!
- >>>
- >>> : -Richard Hartman
- >>> : hartman@uLogic.COM
- >>>
- >>> --
- >>> Shawn Willden
- >>> swillden@icarus.weber.edu
- >>>
- >>> P.S. I prefer style C myself
-
- >>Get a life? Get a real editor like EMACS? At the risk of getting off the
- >>subject, EMACS is poo, full of disgusting cryptic control sequences
- >>(what was it CNTRL-X CNTRL-S to save?) and vi is quite wonderful and sexy
- >>and fun and great and etc etc.
-
- >>P.S I've got some macros for vi that solve mazes. Try that in poo. Sorry,
- >>EMACS.
-
- >I THINK EMACS editors AND VI SUCK BIG TIME! HAVE USED 'EM BOTH, NONE
- >COME CLOSE TO EDITING ON THE PC WITH BRIEF. ha ha ha hah hah ha!!!!!
- >BRIEF BLOWS AWAY *all* COMPETITORS. the *best*
-
- >and I like style C format too:
-
- > if (editor == BRIEF)
- > {
- > printf( "You are a lucky software engineer.\n" );
- > printf( "You will be rewarded handsomely because you are so
- > productive!")
- > }
- > else
- > printf( "You are an unlucky VI or EMACS user. Sorry..." );
-
- And you obviously grew up on Pascal and PC's. Now, what do you do
- when you have to work (simultaneously) on: VAX/VMS, SGI/MIPS UNIX,
- MCS-68k OS-9, SunOS, and MS-DOS? Gee, sorry, but you're too
- unproductive trying to run Brief on VMS . . .
-
- One editor to find them all, and in the darkness bind them . . .
-
- --
- "Insisting on perfect safety is for people who don't have the balls to live
- in the real world." -- Mary Shafer, NASA Ames Dryden
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