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Us old folks remember the days when reformatting was a computationally expensive action that required a special program to “pretty print” the code. And heaven f
by dhosek 3y ago
Us old folks remember the days when reformatting was a computationally expensive action that required a special program to “pretty print” the code. And heaven forbid your code used some language feature your pretty printer didn’t understand and mangled the output making your code uncompilable.
- bayindirh 3y agoWell, I'm not that of a young folk. I was playing with computers (programming, in fact) in the early 90s, and I remember when it was expensive. However, Eclipse is formatting C++ code with a simple hotkey and without breaking it and understanding the language for the last 15 years as far as I can remember. It's instant, too. Because of that I feel a bit surprised when younger people look it like it's black magic. It's neither new, nor unsolved in my conscious experience.