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| Vir Campestris <vir.campestris@invalid.invalid>: Jul 08 09:16PM +0100 On 07/07/2019 11:28, Juha Nieminen wrote: > Limiting line length to 77 characters has been obsolete for decades. We've got that in our newly introduced standard. Apparently it came from Google. Andy |
| "Alf P. Steinbach" <alf.p.steinbach+usenet@gmail.com>: Jul 08 10:58PM +0200 On 08.07.2019 22:16, Vir Campestris wrote: >> Limiting line length to 77 characters has been obsolete for decades. > We've got that in our newly introduced standard. Apparently it came from > Google. Some people noticed when Google dispensed with the "do no evil", and wrote about it, but I think not more than a handful. Corporate structures and bureaucracies are like that. Mindless submission to arbitrary, outdated, often counter-productive rules. My pet hypothesis is that the effect of knowledge is so strong and positive that even when 95% of what one believes is bullshit, the 5% mostly correct stuff more than makes up for the negative effects of the rest. So, these human organizations get by. Cheers!, - Alf |
| "Öö Tiib" <ootiib@hot.ee>: Jul 08 02:18PM -0700 On Monday, 8 July 2019 23:58:33 UTC+3, Alf P. Steinbach wrote: > Some people noticed when Google dispensed with the "do no evil", and > wrote about it, but I think not more than a handful. It was "don't be evil" what they removed. Slogans like "do no evil" or "do the right thing" are indicating stupidity (ignorance of our almost total lack of foresight). |
| Martijn van Buul <pino@dohd.org>: Jul 08 10:15AM * James Kuyper: > being a significant issue for most developers a long time ago - the first C > standard is 30 years old - older than many (most?) of the people writing C > code. Minix would be the counter argument there: There is a lot of legacy code in Minix. While Minix 3 isn't a spring chicken anymore, there is a lot of legacy from Minix 2 around, which harks from a time when this was very much an issue. I've dabbled with Minix quite a bit in my youth (fond memories there), and there was a generous portion of K&R C floating around in there. Not that I would advocate Minix to be the golden standard for C coding, nor do I think that it's particularly on-topic here. While the "Operating System, Design and Implementation" books are still somewhat relevant, they were never intended as a textbook on *programming*. -- Martijn van Buul - pino@dohd.org |
| James Kuyper <jameskuyper@alumni.caltech.edu>: Jul 08 08:18AM -0400 On 7/8/19 6:15 AM, Martijn van Buul wrote: > nor do I think that it's particularly on-topic here. While the "Operating > System, Design and Implementation" books are still somewhat relevant, they > were never intended as a textbook on *programming*. Cases like that one are why I qualified my statement with the words "significant" and "most". |
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