[Info-vax] Fortran
Dave Froble
davef at tsoft-inc.com
Fri Dec 7 17:45:22 EST 2018
On 12/7/2018 4:53 PM, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2018-12-07 17:05:36 +0000, Dave Froble said:
>
>> Coding style can have a lot to do with understand code.
>
> Some of the recent efforts around automated refactoring work
> surprisingly well, and source code formatters are a common feature of
> development tools. The vendor tools for source code development on
> OpenVMS are lacking here, unfortunately.
>
>> I knew a couple of guys who bragged to the head of customer support
>> one day that no one would understand their code. His response, "then
>> whet good is it?".
>
> A rather more impolitic though arguably better response here might have
> been "then what good are you?".
Trust me, Frank's comments to the guilty were quite a bit more than I
mentioned.
As for automatic formatting, I'm sure it can be helpful, but I'm a bit
set in my ways, and prefer the formatting I've developed through the
years. Perhaps a personal preference.
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