Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Onward coding soldiers...

This blog is intended to serve as a resource to those in the fight to establish uncuddled braces as a the industry standard coding style.

if (you.cuddle_your_braces())
{
    you = crazy;
}
else
{
    happiness.awaits();
}

3 comments:

Bossk said...

Of course your fight is an uphill battle. It is a proven fact that novice programmers tend to put braces on their own lines, while experienced software engineers will always cuddle.

Of course more research is needed to determine whether the novice programmers who don't cuddle their braces tend to adopt cuddling as they gain practical experience or they are the ones who drop out of computer science curricula to pursue degrees in fields such as psychology, or physical education rather than continuing to enter the job market as software professionals.

schwerwolf said...

From Paul Miller, an experienced programmer:
"I don't cuddle. I have found that most developers who I like, also don't cuddle. I think the guy who commented to your blog about experienced programmers cuddling is way off base."

Bossk said...

Evidently this "Paul Miller" is a charlatan. Perhaps he is speaking for VB "programmers" - or "COBOL zombies" (a term coined by the great Ed Yourdon).