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From: Andreas Leitgeb <avl@gamma.logic.tuwien.ac.at>
Subject: Re: Style Police (a rant)
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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...