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by this culture, do you mean a dysfunctional one? The braces / indentation formatting argument is one that has come up in a place I used to work (on many occasi
by devs1010 15y ago
by this culture, do you mean a dysfunctional one? The braces / indentation formatting argument is one that has come up in a place I used to work (on many occasions) and generally it seems to be this is indicative of people focusing on the wrong things, I still don't understand why, when there are so many larger issues to address, that this comes up time and time again, in the case of the company I worked for, this was just the tip of the iceberg as seemingly every topic would devolve into a meandering, pointless "discussion" (argument) where if they would just stick with known conventions a lot of wasted time would be saved.
- mirsadm 15y agoActually in my experience it is always the small details that make a product great. Granted, source code indentation is probably not one of them but it was indicative of a group of people that really cared about their work. You tackle the larger problem by solving small ones. I have always found people that focus solely on the "big picture" then to miss it entirely.
- devs1010 15y agoIts a convention vs configuration issue, some people seem to prefer configuration where they tinker around with every detail, this seems to be prevalent with Java as it has a background of "configuration over convention", it seems. Sure, its my opinion, but I prefer not to sit around debating about a problem where there is no real benefit of one over the other, where its really just a matter of personal preference, like in the case of code indenting.