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It would have made code review a nightmarish activity for the team.

• wruza 6y ago
  Why nightmarish? A reviewer may explain that it is prone for other human to overlook the end of conditional and go sleep as usual. I never understood the emotional component of blaming someone’s personal code styles, as if it were a religion with sacrifices and blasphemy instead of just a practical way of coding in a heterogeneous team. This triggers me because many people jump on “bad c0de” in the forums, but then you read some practical code on github, and it is (a) not as perfectly beautiful as they imagine at all and (b) is still readable without nightmares they promised and (c) the algorithms and structure itself requires programmer’s perception and understanding levels far beyond the “it’s monday morning so i feel like missing an end of statement in a hand-written scanner” anyway.
• sriram_malhar 6y ago
  That team had Bell Labs researchers, Ken Thompson and Doug McIlroy being among them. Their brains could handle much harder things!