We're just talking about code formatting, don't we? Taking care of formatting - if it's not the same I got used to in the last 24 years - is most certainly a hindrance to me and I believe to anyone with long programming history.

So if your goal is to have nice looking code and not to have good code, then maybe you're right and I really wouldn't fit into such a team.

If we're not talking about code formatting but what to use for programming, which module or even which language, it's another story. For example: I still don't like Java. But our programm is written in Java and I have written a big part of it. With my own code layout of course ;-)

The funny part about my Java is: A colleague said, that my Java code still looks like Perl. But that's just because one method he uses consists of 5 or so regular expressions, I think.

s$$([},&%#}/&/]+}%&{})*;#$&&s&&$^X.($'^"%]=\&(|?*{%
+.+=%;.#_}\&"^"-+%*).}%:##%}={~=~:.")&e&&s""`$''`"e

In reply to Re^5: PBP: Code Layout by Skeeve
in thread PBP: Code Layout by saberworks

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