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Date: Sun, 11 Sep 2011 10:59:46 -0400
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Subject: Re: Style Police (a rant)
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On 9/11/2011 9:23 AM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Arne Vajhøj<arne@vajhoej.dk>  wrote:
>> Sure you can learn your special style, but that does not
>> help much when somebody else inherits your code.
>>
>> Better pick a language that work the way you want to code.
>
> Imagining myself in the role of a future maintainer of some code,
> I'd surely feel more comfortable with Java-code written in some
> strange (but consistent) style, than with code written in some
> non-mainstream language Xyz.   But maybe that's just me...

I see it otherwise.

But it could be because I have an implicit assumption that
developers hired to maintain code in language Xyz will know
Xyz - mainstream or not mainstream.

Arne