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

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On 2025-03-10 12:30, arnold at skeeve.com wrote:
> 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

We foresaw that and ensured that different code could be reformatted 
with indent.

S.