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[alt.fan.pratchett] Re: [I] Programmers writing styles
On 21 Oct 1997 19:12:56 GMT, in alt.humor.best-of-usenet "Thorsten
Michels [Theorie Hiwi]" <[email protected]> wrote:
>Subject: Re: [I] Programmers writing styles (was Re: A Diferent Type Of Novel ?)
>From: [email protected] (Andrew Mobbs)
>Newsgroups: alt.fan.pratchett
>
>John Barberio <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>>Sorry, It's A ^H^H^H^H^H^H^H it's a bad habit that i got into when i
>>learnt how to program, and some times i just slip into title case.
>>Either that or i dont capitilse my i's. As you can see, i do try and not
>>do this, but it's like biting your finger nails...
>
>Which language was that?
>
>I can BEGIN to UNDERSTAND people WHO program Modula-(2|3) RANDOMLY
>capitalizing WORDS to no good END
>
>(or people(who program) in (lisp (putting (arbitrary) parantheses
>aroung) words))
>
>C {encourages excessive {use of {curly} brackets;} and semicolons;}
>
>Public static void foobar wibble Java(spong) just gives large prefixes
>to sentences;
>
>Perl programmers are OK $until /!@(.*\?)\^/$_\1/ || die "they write
>anything detailed";
>
>Prolog programmers' prose is (X) to read depending on (Y) and how the
>author (Z).
>
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