cvs commit: src/sys/dev/ed if_ed.c

[Poul-Henning Kamp]

In message <20050212001652.L32719 at delplex.bde.org>, Bruce Evans writes:

>Guess which style is used in one-true-awk.

If I had stuck religiously to programming the way the giants who
went before me did, I would be writing assembler on 5 hole BAUDOT
paper tape.

While it is admirable that Brian Kernighan insist on writing the
most elegant and simple code, it does not work well outside an
environment where you can post signs saying "You're not supposed
to understand this" and get away with it.

In other words, this is not about what Bruce, Poul-Henning, Ken,
Dennis or Brian find it easier to read, it is about what Samuel
B. Nobody finds it easier to read when Poul-Henning or Bruce
wrote it.

That's almost, but not entirely unlike what you are saying.

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