[FRIAM] Whitespace

Robert Holmes robert at holmesacosta.com
Mon Sep 11 16:46:43 EDT 2006


... because that way we can generate a fresh set of bugs and keep ourselves
employed in perpetuity fixing them.

R

On 9/11/06, Raymond Parks <rcparks at sandia.gov> wrote:
>
> Douglas Roberts wrote:
> > An equally reasonable alternative suggestion: write every app as an APL
> > one-liner (no indentation nor whitespace needed).
>
>    And it can be write-only (no reading and modifying).  Which, of
> course, is why we keep trying things like WinFX - so that there's some
> chance that you can pick up the code I generated two years ago and
> change it.  I'm just a cynic, but sometimes I think we spend more time
> and effort writing code to be reusable and modifiable than if we just
> rewrote it every time we needed to change it.
>
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