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Quotes of the week

Quotes of the week

Posted Jul 17, 2008 12:01 UTC (Thu) by darwish07 (subscriber, #49520)
Parent article: Quotes of the week

Andrew was really right on getting mad for not matching the kernel syntax standard. I get
**really mad** on projects code where I see completely different styles in different files.
Heck it sometimes even happen in the same source file!

And guess what, they are a lot. Especially in the old user-land -- but core and already used
-- packages.


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Conforming to coding style

Posted Jul 18, 2008 18:43 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

Andrew was really right on getting mad for not matching the kernel syntax standard. I get **really mad** on projects code where I see completely different styles in different files.

I used to feel that way, until I got involved in open source code and found myself reading code from multiple projects, sometimes within the space of an hour. I got used to it, and now I don't care if the code within a single project is diverse either. I adjust, like the child of bilingual parents.

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