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From: shap@bunker.UUCP (Joseph D. Shapiro)
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Subject: Re: Re:  Unix and user friendly systems
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Date: Thu, 13-Jun-85 12:46:34 EDT
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> >>    In my opinion, the language that best supports writing of superbly
> >> human-readable programs at no significant expense in machine 
> >> efficiency is Ada.  I doubt that anyone will challenge that...
> 
> It may be possible in C, but it is both difficult and rare.  I'd be hard
> put to find a significant piece of code in UNIX that I'd call a good
> example of easy-to-read code.  Any nominations from the community?
>               -- Bob Munck

It is both possible AND easy in C, but it is rare.  I think that this
is because it is even easier to write kludges in C.

Also, don't take UNIX source as good examples of readable C; most
'user' programs I've seen, even some of the worst ones, are more
readable.

We are about to enforce a 'readability' standard here... results may be
posted at some later date.