[TUHS] What would early alternatives to C have been?

[arnold at skeeve.com]

Larry McVoy <lm at mcvoy.com> wrote:

> On Mon, Mar 10, 2025 at 10:57:39AM -0400, Dan Cross wrote:
> > So I don't think the specifics of whether you put parentheses around
> > every boolean expression matter as much as whether you aggressively
> > commit to consistency everywhere and support that with tooling and
> > automation.
>
> Amen.  I've contributed to GNU C code, and while I _HATE_ their coding
> style, my contributions were in that style.  It's their house, their
> rules, and Dan is spot on as to why that is important.

I agree 110% with Dan as well. And with Larry about GNU code.

Long ago I worked in a startup, and early on the developers got
together and wrote up a coding style to use.  A year later a new
guy came on board, who refused to follow it.  It was then
easy to see when what's-his-name had touched a part of the code. (I forgot
what his name was.)  Quite annoying.

Arnold