The code

"I am mad!" -- someone

EDIT: Some one does not know what the One True Brace Style is... Let me help you google it.


My problems with the coding standard that are in use today.
I have so many problems with the coding standard for c-like languages in most project: first of the idea that starting brackets should be on a new like, this makes the code IMHO look like fuck:

class foo()
{
   x=2+3;
   print(x);
  
}

Am I the only one that sees the problem with this? The fukking bracket is not on the same line as the class! it is an eye sole!

The brackets on a new like makes the code look messy, and hard to read. It looks like a coding error to me.

this is the way it is suppose to be done:

class foo(){
  
   x = 2 + 3;
   print(x);
  
}

it is no longer an eye sore.

So how did the coding standard that is in use today come to be so popular?
The KnR style was invented by Kernighan and Ritchie's book The C Programming Language* and I can draw the conclusion that this book was read by many future programmers, and then these programmers started projects, and wrote books about programming which then inspired others.... A downward spiral of programming style.
And this downward spiral was accelerated by the the coding standard enforced by GNU** that encapsulated lodes of project that are a part used in our day to day lives.

I am a promoter of the One True Brace Style*** or its derivitive that is intended at making the more reader friendly. Even the Whitesmiths Style**** is better then the KnR Style, even though the end brace is at the wrong level.

help out and stop this downward spiral in to coding hell and convert your code from KnR to 1TBS or one of its derivative.

On White Spaces VS Tabs:
I do not give a fukk, I like tabs, but white spaces can be better if you are doing code with many indentation levels. b/c as you know a line of code has to be less then the 80 characters/columns ( this is just a standardised convention for interoperability and niceness of code)***** and with a tab taking up eight characters we have a when you hit the tenth level in your code.
And btw, gedit converts my tabs to what I want if I want.

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#K.26R_style
** http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/standards.txt
***http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Variant:_1TBS
**** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indent_style#Whitesmiths_style
***** I have lines that are longer then 80 chars, but I try to minimise it as much as possible.