Subj : Re: Is well written code a rare species ?
To   : comp.programming
From : Joe Butler
Date : Mon Aug 15 2005 09:16 pm

I might have read the same text.

I've got a feeling it was Knuth - talking about programmnig editors with a
different format for each of the sections of a function.  Bold and Big for
the function name, italics for the parameters, etc.

One thing that _would_ be nice would be to have proper formating for
mathematical expressions.  But then would we want an X or a * for the
multiplication (* is already taken for convolution).


"Scott Moore" <samiamsansspam@Sun.COM> wrote in message
news:ddqlt9$qqm$1@news1nwk.SFbay.Sun.COM...
> Joe Butler wrote:
>
> >>
> >>>Maybe so for an 80 column terminal.  But we were equipped with some
> >>>new-fangled graphical monitors.  They comfortably display more than 80
> >>>characters per line.
> >>>
>
> Just to cap this fairly irrelevant side thread, I came across a book
> several years ago where the author advocated programming in a word
processor
> with proportional type. I guess this is the ultimate "my program is
> beautiful" concept.
>
> That idea, I must admit I chalked up to "interesting, perhaps the
> wave of the future, and no, I'm not going to do it".
>

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