Re: D8: first impression and uneasy feeling... (long)

From: Rudy Velthuis (TeamB) (rvelthuis_at_gmx.de)
Date: 02/24/04 

Date: Tue, 24 Feb 2004 18:42:05 +0100

At 18:26:35, 24.02.2004, Robert Kozak wrote:

> Because I believe in adjusting to the standards of the language you are
> using. It helps when other people have to view your code and when you
> look at samples and such.

So do I.
 
> I once worked for a company as a COBOL programmer when Delphi came out.
> I was an expert Delphi devloper back then because i was fortunate to be
> on a beta program. Other developers started using it after it came out
> and their Delphi code looked alot like COBOL because they used the same
> spacing and varibale names and ALL UPPERCASE. It looked soo unnatural.

Ugh! Sounds horrible. 

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