[ale] flip flopping on programming, now interested in c++

[Geoffrey Myers]

On 07/02/2012 08:59 PM, Ed Cashin wrote:
> Hmm. If whitespace shouldn't be significant, it's presumably because you
> value some unusual use of whitespace.

Neither is correct.  Whitespace is significant and I don't use 'some 
unusual use of whitespace.'

I think that code should be properly indented, but there is not exactly 
'only one way to do it.'  Such as the following comparison:

if (foo) {
	fprintf ....
}

if (foo)
{
	fprintf ....
}

I think either is acceptable, although I prefer the first.

>
> But saying one should know how to format one's code is to imply that
> there's some obviously proper way to do it that one should know.

There are certain acceptable approaches.

>
> Then why have braces, in that case, since the formatting already
> disambiguates the sybtax?
>
> On Monday, July 2, 2012, Geoffrey Myers wrote:
>
>     On 07/01/2012 01:11 PM, Stephen Haywood wrote:
>      > I have to second Python. Ruby is nice too but it has been so
>     coopted by
>      > the Rails people that it's hard to find good info that is not Rails
>      > related. Python is excellent for system programming and has an easy
>      > interface with C if you need it.
>
>     The thing I don't like about python, is the forced formatting.
>
>     If you don't format your code properly, you shouldn't be writing code.
>
>
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Until later, Geoffrey

"I predict future happiness for America if they can prevent
the government from wasting the labors of the people under
the pretense of taking care of them."
- Thomas Jefferson