Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site umcp-cs.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!umcp-cs!chris
From: chris@umcp-cs.UUCP (Chris Torek)
Newsgroups: net.lang.c
Subject: Re: Style, readability, etc. (long, but IMPORTANT)
Message-ID: <962@umcp-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 23-Jul-85 08:03:22 EDT
Article-I.D.: umcp-cs.962
Posted: Tue Jul 23 08:03:22 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 24-Jul-85 08:21:23 EDT
References: <95@brl-tgr.ARPA>
Organization: U of Maryland, Computer Science Dept., College Park, MD
Lines: 18

[ { :-) ]

Mesa, "highly readable"?  The keywords are in all caps!  Yucko!

(But at least it lets one use {, } for BEGIN, END.)

[ } ]

Actually, the biggest problem I've had writing (not debugging,
creating) Mesa code is following the profusion of derived types.
Bitblt wants a BBptr which points to a Block which is an array of
Environment.Byte which... well, you probably get the idea.  It
takes three manuals open to six different places simultaneously
until you've learned the more common types.
-- 
In-Real-Life: Chris Torek, Univ of MD Comp Sci Dept (+1 301 454 4251)
UUCP:	seismo!umcp-cs!chris
CSNet:	chris@umcp-cs		ARPA:	chris@maryland