Account Options

  1. Sign in
The old Google Groups will be going away soon, but your browser is incompatible with the new version.
Google Groups Home
« Groups Home
comp.lang.lisp
+ new post
About this group
Subscribe to this group
This is a Usenet group - learn more
Message from discussion Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses
The group you are posting to is a Usenet group. Messages posted to this group will make your email address visible to anyone on the Internet.
Your reply message has not been sent.
Your post was successful
 
From:
To:
Cc:
Followup To:
Add Cc | Add Followup-to | Edit Subject
Subject:
Validation:
For verification purposes please type the characters you see in the picture below or the numbers you hear by clicking the accessibility icon. Listen and type the numbers you hear
 
Christopher Browne  
View profile  
 More options Mar 29 2000, 3:00 am
Newsgroups: comp.lang.lisp
From: cbbro...@news.hex.net (Christopher Browne)
Date: 2000/03/29
Subject: Re: Dangling Closing Parentheses vs. Stacked Closing Parentheses
Print | View thread | Show original | Report this message | Find messages by this author
Centuries ago, Nostradamus foresaw a time when Anthony Cartmell would say:

>> It's because you haven't yet separated your IDL writing style from
>> your Lisp writing style.

>Actually it's David who wants to format ICAD with Lisp layout
>rules. I use dangling parens.

>> Eight years sheds no light on a person's experience level.

>Except that they have more experience than someone with one year!

Eight years of practicing poor habits can lead to that "extensive
experience" being a downright Bad Thing.

I have one co-worker who has been programming in various languages for
quite a number of years who has a few such "bad habits" that make him
something a liability despite having extensive "experience."

For this reason, it is unsafe to generalize about the effects of
experience.  *Valuable* experience is valuable; simply "spending time"
isn't.
--
"Bawden is misinformed.  Common Lisp has no philosophy.  We are held
together only by a shared disgust for all the alternatives."
-- Scott Fahlman, explaining why Common Lisp is the way it is....
cbbro...@ntlug.org- <http://www.ntlug.org/~cbbrowne/lsf.html>


 
You must Sign in before you can post messages.
To post a message you must first join this group.
Please update your nickname on the subscription settings page before posting.
You do not have the permission required to post.
Create a group - Google Groups - Google Home - Terms of Service - Privacy Policy
©2012 Google