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Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting?

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"Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> writes:

> - It is true that the size of the language community has resulted in
> cliques of style/convention, but there an overarching theme of
> convention that is generally cross-cutting.

i see what you did there. :-)

now the topic isn't 'javascript code convention' anymore but 'a subset
of all conventions defined by an overarching theme that is generally
cross-cutting'. different things for me.

> - Calling the language "new" after 18 years seems questionable.

well, a vast majority of js programmers just 5 years ago didn't worry
about constructors at all. int this regard, js is pretty new.

> The bracing style has settled towards a variant of 1TBS due to
> semicolon insertion issues and premature optimization of code size.

depends. naming and case tend to have great impact on readability, while
bracing style is absolutely irrelevant if used consistently. 

> Regardless of whether you've programmed in some capacity for 2 years
> 25 years, or 50 years, 

it means having adapted to very different languages, contexts and
environments. and conventions, of course. it means i have no problem
whatsoever in following any convention ... when there's a need for
it. 

i still see no need to enforce some particular instance of it on the
code posted on discussion groups. gross eye-bleeding offences (in the
overarching generally accepted theme) may or may not be pointed out, but
being picky about every little perceived offense is just noise. plus,
given there is no real standard, it's just bigotry. guess how many style
bigots i've been in contact with in 25 years of reading! xD

> Code is read more often than it is written and as a language it should
> be expressed in a way that facilitates communication between Man and
> Man as well as Man and Machine.

sure, but i would expect man to be more flexible than machine. 

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Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? Sergey Zakharov <sergzach@gmail.com> - 2013-04-10 12:37 -0700
  Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-11 00:02 +0200
    Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-04-11 18:40 +0100
      Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-12 01:03 +0200
        Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? x@x.com (znôrt) - 2013-04-12 21:16 +0200
          Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? "Michael Haufe (TNO)" <tno@thenewobjective.com> - 2013-04-13 11:45 -0700
            Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? x@x.com (znôrt) - 2013-04-14 14:36 +0200
    Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? John G Harris <niam@jghnorth.org.uk.invalid> - 2013-04-15 09:27 +0100
      "Javascript" (was: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting?) Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2013-04-15 14:55 +0200
      Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? Dr J R Stockton <reply1300@merlyn.demon.co.uk.invalid> - 2013-04-16 18:09 +0100
  Re: Is an idea of website where users can compete with each other interesting? Sergey Zakharov <sergzach@gmail.com> - 2013-04-11 04:10 -0700

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