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The only answer is to switch to Fortran. If you still complain about K&R style after that, then you are far more resilient than I.
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Hmmmm would writing a mobile app in Fortran get me 15 minutes of fame by getting to the front page of hacker news?
I'd say no, except that the person who wrote a web server framework in COBOL[^] succeeded.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I just wish all Version Control Systems would allow us to chose the brace formatting, as well as other formatting, and check the code out into the format we like and check it back in as the company standard. Then this battle could end.
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K&R C was developed in the days when the Teletype ASR 33 was the standard keyboard/printer/paper tape reader/punch. The ASR 33 read and printed AT 10 CHARACTERS PER SECOND. Since it could take hours to compile and print a program listing, brevity was paramount. Spaces were important since each space took a 1/10 of a second to process; tabs were not usually used because tab settings were not consistent; and the program author was the maintainer, so understanding and style consistency were already learned.
IMHO, C, C++, Java, JavaScript, and all their derivative languages are innately prone to error.
I have spent countless unnecessary hours chasing non-obvious programming errors. In one case, I spent over 6 months chasing an "=" vs "==" in an if statement in a C program that was buried in an error recovery routine.
Programs should be written, first for communications to yourself; second, to other programmers; and finally to the equipment. And part of communications is consistency in style.
At last count, I have written programs and systems in over 40 languages, some of which where proprietary to equipment or application. They all have room for improvement!
Just my thoughts
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I normally put the opening brace on the introductory statement line, but there are a number of functions I've written that do not follow this rule: those auto-generated by tools, and those that have too many arguments to put on one line. In the latter case, the main problem is that auto-formatting would not indent follow-up code correctly if I placed the opening brace on the last line of the argument list. But formatting works fine if I put it on a separate line.
Life is compromise 
(yes, it's totally possible there are formatting tools better than the built-in VS editor, but I'm not going to clutter my toolbox just for this!)
GOTOs are a bit like wire coat hangers: they tend to breed in the darkness, such that where there once were few, eventually there are many, and the program's architecture collapses beneath them. (Fran Poretto)
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Get resharper on that code right away!!
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I was outside doing some work when I noticed that the tulips and daffodils are coming up. What a great winter we are having 
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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Damn, it's hell on wheels here in hamster land. -20 to -30C seems to be the norm. 
/ravi
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: in hamster land.
Strange - don't you normally get Tulips from hamster land?
MVVM # - I did it My Way
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Man, you're a god. - walterhevedeich 26/05/2011
.\\axxx
(That's an 'M')
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Good catch! Clearly I have food on the brain. 
/ravi
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Wow, that's awesome. Well played sir.
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Yes - we have flowers blooming as well. "Crocuses" apparently - I only recognize two forms of plant: "Grass" and "Tree". Everything else is a complication I leave to Herself.
I will (under duress) mow the grass, but I draw the line at anything else.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: I will (under duress) mow the grass, but I draw the line at anything else.
I draw the line at sand.
/ravi
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Here in SC and in FL as well snow is on the way Weds. and wind chills in the low teens, last time this happened was in 89!
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Back in 2004, the Upstate region of South Carolina (Rock Hill specifically) got a snow storm in February - 18 inches in one day. What would have been a 45 minute commute home took 3 hours.
And, no, it doesn't happen very often, but when it does... well, just stay off the roads. Even if YOU know how to drive in it, MOST of them don't.
Tim
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Stay off the roads because all the non-driving idiots are out in force, they can't even drive the roads when it rains so when it snows well...
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Mike Hankey wrote: Ravi we don't want your weather
Nor do I! 
/ravi
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I can imagine y'all have been slammed.
Hopefully it will be an early spring for y'all?
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PJ Arends wrote: What a great winter we are having
I'm happy to send you some nice white fertilizer. 
Marc
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Thanks, but no thanks.
Within you lies the power for good - Use it!
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It's been pretty rough here, as well, PJ. In the mid to high-70s, sunny. Ugghh! 
I planted a nectarine tree last weekend, and it's already sprouting new growth!
Will Rogers never met me.
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Poor, poor Roger.
Software Zen: delete this;
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-2°F (-19°C) in northern Illinois - heading to -14°F tonight with 20-30 mph winds just to spice things up.
I LOVE ILLINOIS! I Love Illinois! I love Illinois! i love illinois...
Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. ~ George Washington
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51 today in Nome Alaska.
i believe they broke a record. 
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