Fw: Style

Tim Cuthbertson timcuth at bellsouth.net
Sun Jun 20 16:17:03 UTC 1999


Hear, hear! A very well stated presentation of an important message.


----- Original Message ----- 
From: Ralph E. Johnson <johnson at cs.uiuc.edu>
To: <peter at smalltalk.org>; Squeak Mail List <squeak at cs.uiuc.edu>
Sent: Sunday, June 20, 1999 8:49 AM
Subject: Re: Fw: Style

.... much of original message deleted ...

> I do care that you say that style is not important.
> Style is important.  It is not just someone's opinion.  It might start
> out as someone's opinion, but once enough code gets written, it becomes
> part of a culture, and part of the environment.  It becomes objective,
> and we can test for its presence and absence, and for its effects on
> people and programs.  Squeak has a strong sense of style.  If new
> Squeak programmers learn it, they will be able to use Squeak more 
> effectively than they otherwise would.  You are doing a disservice
> to people to tell them that style is optional.
> 
> -Ralph Johnson
> 
> 
> 





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