On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
Am 01.02.2013 15:21, schrieb Bill Oliver:
On Fri, 1 Feb 2013, Reindl Harald wrote:
Harald, you're in error. Many German speaking people consider style of writing you are using here, to be rude,
disrespectful and childish - I am one of these
fine that i work with people for which is content more
important than style - the other way is childish for me
Is that why you don't comment your code :-)?
40-60 % of my code are comments and they are usually
written before the code is implemented and the code
as long debugged as it does what the comment says
that is a completly different topic
code-comments are for quality and documentation
over the years - uppercase letters are the as useless
as in written communication
Ah, I see. Style is important when you think it's important, even if others don't want to bother with it. It's not important when you don't want to bother with it, even though others think it's important. Sort of like wearing plaid pants and purple sneakers to work. There's people who think that if someone has 60% of their code as comment, then they are just being chatty, not making their work clear.
It's not a completely different topic. I might complain that "You know, using "//" to denote a comment is *completely* arbitrary. I could just as easily use "/&." So I think I will, and screw all those compilers who think that they can force me to write in a way I don't want to.
But it turns out that, if you want to talk to the compiler and not have it confused and have your work tossed out, you really have to use the convention. Because the *convention* serves a purpose, even if the actual rules are sometimes arbitrary.
Talking to people is pretty much the same.
I might think that wearing plaid pants and purple sneakers is just fine. And in some circumstances it might be. But when I go to court and stand in front of a jury, or when I go to the penthouse offices and talk to CEOs, or when I go to the Pentagon and talk to a four-star general (and I've done them all), plaid pants and purple sneakers just don't cut it.
You are free to use "i" instead of "I." You can jut out your chin and say how people who use conventional styles are rigid morons. But recognize that most of them will think you are a self-indulgent moron and, worse, an arrogant one who is more concerned with himself than with others.
billo
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