[Info-vax] Fortran

[Dave Froble]

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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