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It wouldn't be a Weekly Edition without a flame war over style
It wouldn't be a Weekly Edition without a flame war over style
Posted Mar 27, 2008 7:36 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165)In reply to: It wouldn't be a Weekly Edition without a flame war over style by lysse
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... unless there are millions of lines of code already written to one standard. Choose one: (a) new code matches it, (b) the millions of lines of old code are altered to match a new style, or (c) you get a mishmash of different styles. Nobody will do (b), and nobody wants (c). What's left?
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It wouldn't be a Weekly Edition without a flame war over style
Posted Apr 3, 2008 3:40 UTC (Thu) by lysse (subscriber, #3190) [Link]
(c) happens anyway, despite everyone's best intentions. That's community too.