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I’d agree that 100% consistency is harmful to communication, but the primary communication happening in programming is with a computer. Even when it comes to ot
by xondono 6y ago
I’d agree that 100% consistency is harmful to communication, but the primary communication happening in programming is with a computer. Even when it comes to other developers looking at your code, their internal process is “let me simulate what the computer understands”.
Unless you are enforcing weird autoformat choices, everything should look pretty enough.
- davedx 6y ago> the primary communication happening in programming is with a computer Working in a team with 15 people on the same code base I disagree with this. Count the computer as one teammate
- VectorLock 6y ago"Style" means things that the human sees. If it changes execution its not style any more. This is what tests are designed to enforce.