Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: I think in FORTH & program in C/C++. Date: Mon, 4 Oct 2021 07:59:57 -0600 Lines: 23 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net P/toNGLcJLURjRUVN4TR+g0k0e9FhtLLzcEWBNpgnleur82Kxy Cancel-Lock: sha1:6AkoCbhUtDTdRoOWpYD5zPqZdNI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4728 comp.os.linux.advocacy:595263 sci.physics:833705 On 10/03/2021 11:08 PM, Clutterfreak wrote: > On 10/3/2021 8:47 PM, rbowman wrote: >> I'm not arguing that you can't create the equivalent of a while loop >> with a for loop or that you can't use a screwdriver as a chisel. > > > My point is that "for loop" is a screwdriver of length 9.0 inches and > the other two "while things" are screwdrivers of 9.00001 inches and > 9.00002 inches respectively :) > > I don't see them as one being a screwdriver and the other a chisel at > all. All three are _practically_ EXACTLY the same screwdriver. > Whatever... A guy I've worked with for over 20 years would write for( i=1; i<10; i++ ) which I think is a perverted use of white space but so it goes. fwiw if I'm working on someone else's code I try to maintain the overall style, camel case, underbars, whatever. I do balk at misspellings though.