2012/1/11 Eric S Fraga <e.fraga@ucl.ac.uk>

> pinard@iro.umontreal.ca (François Pinard) writes:
>
> [...]
>
> > Should I say, I notice a strong correlation between rotten software and
> > the lack of attention to such details.  I'm not saying that avoiding
> > trailing white space is a guarantee of good software.  But I'm saying
> > that people unwilling to pay attention to details are not prone to pay
> > attention for a lot of other things, which is not good for software.
>
> What is interesting, to me, is that some of these details come down to
> style preferences *and* that these preferences can change dramatically
> over time.  I have been programming for 35+ years and it's scary to see
> how my preferences have changed, sometimes cycling several times with a
> period of 5 or more years!
>
> I am thinking especially about things like indentation rules, blank
> lines, multi-line versus single line comments, variable names, case
> (cf. this thread), etc.  Of course, the language in use affects the
> choices available but there are always choices, none of which is
> automatically and permanently correct.
>
> cheers,
> eric
>
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>
Thanks for the awesome Donald Knuth Video François, a must watch for folks
who love TeX and its wrappers.

Don't have much to say for the Caps convention, except that the criterion
suggested by Bastien seems fair enough.

Regards,
Sankalp