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From: jagardner@orchid.UUCP
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Subject: Re: documentation standards for C
Message-ID: <10883@orchid.waterloo.edu>
Date: Tue, 29-Sep-87 02:55:57 EDT
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Posted: Tue Sep 29 02:55:57 1987
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Reply-To: datanguay@watbun.waterloo.edu (David Tanguay)
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In article <8675@utzoo.UUCP> henry@utzoo.UUCP (Henry Spencer) writes:
>By the way, there is a pervasive myth that K&R style is hard to use.
>Wrong.  It is hard to learn.  Once learned, no problem.  I thought it
>was hard to use and error-prone too, until our conversion to V7 required
>me to spend a lot of time hacking 

Could somebody explain why the K&R style is so hard? I've never had any
problems with it. In fact, I prefer it to just about any other style I've
ever seen (except for the one Henry mentioned previously in his article).

David Tanguay