Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!mailrus!cornell!batcomputer!sun.soe!sun.soe.clarkson.edu!nelson From: nelson@sun.soe.clarkson.edu (Russ Nelson) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: More John Dvorak comments Message-ID: Date: 30 Aug 88 14:43:43 GMT References: <18509@neabbs.UUCP> <24516@bu-cs.BU.EDU> <31930@clyde.ATT.COM> <6414@chinet.UUCP> Sender: root@sun.soe Reply-To: nelson@clutx.clarkson.edu Followup-To: alt.flame Distribution: na Organization: Clarkson University Lines: 26 In-reply-to: ward@chinet.UUCP's message of 28 Aug 88 15:46:00 GMT In article <6414@chinet.UUCP> ward@chinet.UUCP (Ward Christensen) writes: P.S. there's NOTHING wrong with cryptic - depending upon the USER - I use APL, and PMATE is my favorite editor AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE, in which [S;$@X=1^@X>31^-M9IQR0L] is a program to scan an assembly source program, and move any comment lines which aren't starting in column 1 but which start left of column 32, over so the ';' is in column 32. Ward, with all due respect, columns belong in column 40. (Note Followup-To). I have probably written about 100K 8088 opcodes, so there should be no question that I am the possessor of the absolute certainty that column forty is the place at which comments are the most satisfied, happy, and, well, joyful. The sight of a comment whose semicolon is carefully aligned in the middle of the screen is one of the seven wonders of the world. A well-aligned comment is a comment that knows its place in the world. I put all my comments beginning at the center of the screen and haven't had a single complaint from any of my comments. All my comments are good, middle-of- the-screen comments, not a one of them is to be found left of center. 'Nuff said. AaPdOvLaOnGcIeES -- --russ (nelson@clutx [.bitnet | .clarkson.edu]) Shuzan held out his short staff and said, "If you call this a short staff, you oppose its reality. If you do not call it a short staff, you ignore the facts. Now, what do you wish to call it?"