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Not only that, afaik they pioneered/popularized a style of coding where the formatter is always correct, not the coder. This made coding on every language much
by darthrupert 4y ago
Not only that, afaik they pioneered/popularized a style of coding where the formatter is always correct, not the coder. This made coding on every language much more enjoyable and more efficient.
This is not something to write papers about, but a very significant thing anyway.
- MaxLeiter 4y agoAnecdotal of course, but a teacher of mine worked on the original Ada compiler and said each dev had their own formatting rules. The SVN had an unformatted version and everyone could format it locally. Not the exact same, but pretty similar.